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    Turandot (Italian: [turanˈdɔt] ; see below) is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to a libretto in Italian by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni....
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    Butterfly (1904), and Turandot (1924), all of which are among the most frequently performed and recorded of all operas. Puccini was born Giacomo Antonio...
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  • This is a partial discography of Turandot, an opera by Giacomo Puccini. The "prima" was held at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan on 25 April 1926, conducted...
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  • Turandot at the Forbidden City was a 1998 live production of Giacomo Puccini's opera Turandot directed by Zhang Yimou. The opera was performed by Giovanna...
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  • Turandot is a 1926 opera by Giacomo Puccini. Other works of that title include: Turandot (Gozzi) (1762), play by Carlo Gozzi, and its many later adaptations...
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  • Nessun dorma (category Arias by Giacomo Puccini)
    English: "Let no one sleep") is an aria from the final act of Giacomo Puccini's opera Turandot (text by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni) and one of the best-known...
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  • of Hoffmann (Offenbach) Spoletta, Tosca (Puccini) Goro, Madama Butterfly (Puccini) Pong, Turandot (Puccini) Gastone, La traviata (Verdi) Roderigo, Otello...
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  • acclaim at the Met until 1974 in roles such as Calaf (with Birgit Nilsson as Turandot), Cavaradossi, Maurizio, Ernani, Rodolfo and Edgardo. He also undertook...
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    Busoni and Wilhelm Stenhammar; and operas by Busoni, Giacomo Puccini and Havergal Brian. Turandot was written deliberately in the Commedia dell'arte style...
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    2015. (also with Pietro Mascagni, Cavalleria rusticana.) Giacomo Puccini, Turandot, Maria Agresta as Liù, La Scala, Riccardo Chailly. Published by Decca...
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    enough vocal power to handle the more overtly dramatic roles in Verdi, Puccini, and Meyerbeer operas. Ramey graduated from Colby High School in Colby...
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  • L'Africaine (Giacomo Meyerbeer) Sieglinde, Die Walküre (Wagner) Turandot, Turandot (Puccini) Valentine, Les Huguenots (Giacomo Meyerbeer) Vanessa, Vanessa...
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    performances such as that of the Italian composer Giacomo Puccini's final opera, Turandot, set in Imperial China, where the tune served as the leitmotif...
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    1921, where he began his last opera Turandot. He died in 1924 in Brussels, after a throat operation. Giacomo Puccini's son Antonio turned the building into...
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    Riccardo, Un ballo in maschera (Verdi) Calaf, Turandot (Puccini) Chevalier des Grieux, Manon Lescaut (Puccini) Samson, Samson et Dalila (Saint-Saëns) Otello...
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  • creating tension. Puccini would use a similar technique in the chorus "Ombra dolente, non farci del male!" in his opera Turandot. The work ends with...
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    Aida, Aida (Verdi) Floria Tosca, Tosca (Puccini) Leonora, La forza del destino (Verdi) Turandot, Turandot (Puccini) Elisabetta, Don Carlos (Verdi) Gioconda...
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  • she was featured in the role of Liù in Turandot at the Forbidden City, an outdoor production of the Puccini opera. In December 1999, she sang Alice Ford...
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  • Les Troyens, Berlioz, 1863 The Tsar's Bride, Rimsky-Korsakov, 1899 Turandot, Puccini, 1926 Il turco in Italia, Rossini, 1814 The Turn of the Screw, Britten...
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    The Italian composer Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924) is regarded as the natural successor to the tradition of Giuseppe Verdi and is considered the greatest...
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    Simonetta Puccini (born Giurumello; 2 June 1929 in Pisa – 16 December 2017 in Milan) was the last surviving acknowledged descendant of the composer Giacomo...
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  • farewell concert at Vienna's Great Musikvereinssaal), singing arias from Turandot as Calàf, Aida as Radamès and Il trovatore as Manrico. His voice showed...
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    Madama Butterfly (category Operas by Giacomo Puccini)
    Madame Butterfly) is an opera in three acts (originally two) by Giacomo Puccini, with an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It is based...
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    Schicchi, by Giacomo Puccini. The work received its world premiere at the Metropolitan Opera on 14 December 1918. Around 1904, Puccini first began planning...
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    Suor Angelica (Sister Angelica) is an opera in one act by Giacomo Puccini to an original Italian libretto by Giovacchino Forzano. It is the second opera...
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  • Tu che di gel sei cinta (category Arias by Giacomo Puccini)
    3, scene 1, of Puccini's 1926 opera Turandot. It is sung by Liù under torture, prior to her suicide. The words were written by Puccini himself while waiting...
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  • production of the Ring Cycle. At the same house she sang the title role in Puccini's Turandot in 2015. Goerke has developed a relationship with the Edinburgh International...
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  • dramatic soprano, particularly known for her operatic portrayals of Puccini's Turandot and Tosca, and Wagnerian roles. Marton was born in Budapest, where...
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    (The South Bank Show) (2009) Holst – In the Bleak Midwinter (2011) TurandotPuccini – Scottish Opera (1984) I Cavalieri di Ekebu – Zandonai – Krefeld...
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    leˈsko]) is an Italian-language opera in four acts composed by Giacomo Puccini between 1889 and 1892 to a libretto by Luigi Illica, Marco Praga and Domenico...
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