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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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2024 is the centenary anniversary of Puccini’s death, and so it makes sense that the prominent festival of the composer’s operas at Torre del Lago (the Tuscan lakeside resort where he lived) should feature Turandot this year – his last opera, that wasn’t quite complete when he died unexpectedly following surgery.
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 ...
This exhibition celebrates the Met’s long and distinguished history with the great composer’s masterpieces, a proud tradition that has resulted in some of the company’s most spectacular productions and set the stage for legendary performances by generations of opera’s biggest stars.
Jun 30, 2024 · The Teatro alla Scala commemorates the 100th anniversary of Giacomo Puccini's death with an extravagant new production of his final opera, Turandot, which was left incomplete when he died of a heart attack at the age of 66.
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.
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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.
