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Jun 6, 2023 · Composing what would be his last opera, Giacomo Puccini was struggling to humanize Turandot, daughter of the Emperor and a woman of mesmerizing beauty. Early in the opera, she had cruelly...
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Sep 1, 2015 · Giacomo Puccini, one of the best known composers of all time, was diagnosed with laryngeal cancer and died from the disease in 1924. In this article, Rosario Marchese-Ragona and Alessandro Martini describe Puccini’s experience of the disease with quotes from the man himself and put into context the diagnosis and treatment of laryngeal cancer ...
Puccini and his wife never understood how serious the cancer was, as the news was revealed only to his son. Puccini died in Brussels on 29 November 1924, aged 65, from complications after the treatment; uncontrolled bleeding led to a heart attack the day after surgery.
Jun 11, 2022 · Hidden Belgium: The house where Puccini died. Saturday, 11 June 2022. The Italian composer Giacomo Puccini was 65 years old when he arrived in Brussels accompanied by his son Antonio. He had come to a specialised private clinic in Ixelles for an operation to treat throat cancer.
Nov 29, 2022 · Read and learn about the famous Italian composer Giacomo Puccini's cancer, his subsequent treatments and funeral service, and his unfinished opera Turandot. We look at the experimental treatment he underwent for cancer.
After a diagnosis of throat cancer, he underwent a new and experimental treatment called radiation therapy, which was being offered in Brussels, Belgium. He and his wife never knew about the seriousness of the cancer, as the news was only revealed to his son. Puccini died there on November 29, 1924 from complications from the treatment.
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The trip, unhappily, was not simply for the pleasure of visiting the city: he had been diagnosed with acute throat cancer and Puccini’s doctors had recommended experimental radium therapy with Dr Leroux of Brussels.
