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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.
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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More than 100 years later, as we approach the centenary of his death on November 29, 2024, it is difficult to imagine the Met without Puccini. La Bohème has taken our stage more times than any other opera, with Tosca and Madama Butterfly not far behind, both falling comfortably within the company’s top ten titles.
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.
Oct 8, 2024 · To mark the centenary of Giacomo Puccini’s death – he died on 29 November 1924 – last April Archivio Storico Ricordi and Bertelsmann (which owns Ricordi) opened Opera Meets New Media, a multimedia exhibition on the composer and the interaction between opera and the media of the time.
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Oct 8, 2024 · A vivid, passionate and original portrait capable of telling the public about the “other” Giacomo and showing all the nuances of the man in love with life, deeply linked to Tuscany and his Versilia, where everything started and to which everything returned.
