Puccini’s Turandot

About Giacomo Puccini’s Turandot:

Puccini’s final opera is an epic fairy tale set in a China of legend, loosely based on a play by 18th-century Italian dramatist Carlo Gozzi. Featuring a most unusual score with an astounding and innovative use of chorus and orchestra, it is still recognizably Puccini, bursting with instantly appealing melody. The unenviable task of completing the opera’s final scene upon Puccini’s sudden death was left to the composer Franco Alfano. Conductor Arturo Toscanini oversaw Alfano’s contribution and led the world premiere.

About T4T:

On the centennial of its first performance conducted by Arturo Toscanini, Giacomo Puccini’s Turandot returns in a new multimedia staging that seeks to reconnect the thread broken in April 1926, when the opera came to a halt at the very point where the composer had left the score unfinished. Since then, the Maestro’s final masterpiece has continued to inspire reflection and fascination among musicians and audiences alike. 

Witness the original unfinished version presented at the Miller Theater in Augusta, in an unprecedented production developed within The Four Turandot – T4T, an international project in advanced artistic training created by the “Giuseppe Verdi” Conservatory of Milan in collaboration with leading musical, cultural, and artistic institutions.

By 2026, the project aims to present all four versions currently recognized in academic scholarship: the opera as it was left at the composer’s death; the version featuring Franco Alfano’s original finale; the one with Alfano’s second and more widely known finale; and the version that includes the finale composed by Luciano Berio.

INTAFAM_00048 – CUP F41I23000550001 Project subsidized under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) – Mission 4 – Component 1 ‘Enhancement of services for education: from early childhood programs to universities’ – Investment 3.4 ‘Advanced university teaching and skills,’ sub-investment T5 ‘Strategic partnerships/initiatives to innovate the international dimension of the AFAM system,’ funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU.

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