Puccini G. Turandot. Lyrical drama in 3 acts, 5 scenes. Piano score, Compozitor Publishing House

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979-0-3522-0323-5 Puccini G. Turandot. Lyrical drama in three acts, five scenes. Piano score, Compozitor Publishing House Saint-Petersburg

Turandot is a musical drama by G. Puccini. Libretto by G. Adami and R. Simonyi based on the dramatic tale of the same name by C. Gozzi.
Premiere: Milan, Teatro alla Scala, 25 April 1926, conducted by A. Toscanini (piano score in Russian and Italian).

Puccini died without composing the final duet Turandot and Calaf. He had a presentiment of death and, fearing that he would not complete the opera, expressed a desire that the audience be told where the work had stopped. At the premiere, Toscanini stopped the performance at the last note, written by the author's hand, and addressed the audience with the words: "Here the composition breaks off, not completed due to the death of the artist." The stage was plunged into darkness, the curtain slowly lowered, and the hall was lit up. The silence was interrupted by exclamations: "Glory to Puccini!" Only starting from the second performance, the opera was performed with the finale completed by Puccini's student F. Alfano, whom Toscanini chose for this purpose. "Turandot" is staged less often than other operas by Puccini. The explanation for this lies in the complexity of its execution and the difficulty of perception. However, it is included in the repertoire of the largest theaters in the world.
Turandot was first staged on the Russian stage in 1927 in Moscow, in the Aquarium Garden Theater, by artists of the Free Opera; the premiere at the branch of the Bolshoi Theater took place on December 12, 1931 under the direction of L. Steinberg.

Pages: 448.
Soft cover.
Compozitor Publishing House – Saint-Petersburg.
ISBN/ISMN: 979-0-3522-0323-5