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Work: Turandot

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ComposerPuccini, Giacomo (1858-1924)
PeriodRomantic
LibrettistRenato Simoni, Giuseppe Adami
Year1926
Work typeOpera / Oratorio
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TartuTurandot

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Puccini: Turandot
Endel Nõgene; Giorgio Madia; Theatre Vanemuine; Aleksandr Brazhnyk; Maarja Meeru

PoznańTurandot

Poznań Opera House
Puccini: Turandot
Jacek Kaspszyk; Ran Arthur Braun; Poznań Opera; Grażyna Bittner; Wiktor Kuźma; Poznań Opera Orchestra

BarcelonaTurandot & Franz Schubert Filharmonia

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Puccini: Turandot
Tomàs Grau; Jordi Gastó; Franz Schubert Filharmonia; Orfeó Català; Lianna Haroutounian; Xavier Moreno
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Cast and orchestra bring down the house in Met’s glowing Turandot

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With a standout cast, fine orchestral playing under Carlo Rizzi, and newly refurbished sets, Zeffirelli’s 1987 staging of Puccini’s epic fairy tale appears as bright as ever.

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Turandot at Savonlinna Opera Festival: a riddle inside an enigma

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Pet Halmen’s 2003 production of Puccini's unfinished final opera places asks more riddles than Turandot's quiz questions to her would-be suitors. 
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A big and bold Turandot in Kansas City

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Lyric Opera of Kansas City ends its season with Garnett Bruce's blockbuster production of Puccini's Turandot
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ParisTurandot

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Puccini: Turandot
Marco Armiliato; Robert Wilson; Opéra national de Paris; Stephanie Engeln; Jacques Reynaud; John Torres; Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Paris
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A journey through Puccini’s Tuscany

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Puccini, who died 100 years ago this year, had a lasting fondness for his native Tuscany – and despite his wealth and fame in later life never moved far from his birthplace in Lucca.

Puccini and the moderns: a composer in the 20th century

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2024 marks the centenary of Giacomo Puccini’s death. Yet his work is often relegated from histories of 20th-century music. Puccini scholar Alexandra Wilson explores the diversity – and modernism – of the composer’s later operas.

Bachtrack top ten: Giacomo Puccini

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Giacomo Puccini knew how to pull the heartstrings in his music. He made his soprano characters suffer... but also composed some of his best music for them.