Turandot, the last canonical opera
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On 25 April 1926, Europe’s great and good gathered at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan to mark a symbolic occasion: the first performance of Turandot, the final opera by Giacomo Puccini, who had died unexpectedly 17 months earlier. It had been completed by a younger composer, Franco Alfano, but the audience would not hear his ending that night. Instead, the conductor, Arturo Toscanini, halted the performance prematurely, announcing with a grand flourish that “the opera is finishing here because th
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