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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.
The Puccini Festival at Torre del Lago springs a surprise in the composer’s final opera with its homage to the premiere’s abrupt conclusion. 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 ...
Mar 11, 2024 · Giacomo Puccini: Turandot. To mark the centenary of the death of Puccini (1858-1924), La Scala’s programming for this season includes the composer’s last opera, Turandot, which had its world premiere at La Scala in Milan in 1926.
- Anna Gettel
- Anna Netrebko
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...
- Peter Ubel
Giacomo Puccini with conductor Arturo Toscanini. After 1904, Puccini's compositions were less frequent. In 1906 Giacosa died and, in 1909, there was a scandal after Puccini's wife, Elvira, falsely accused their maid Doria Manfredi of having an affair with Puccini.
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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.
