Summary
'The duet! the duet! it is the nodal point, all that is beautiful and vivid in the drama converges on it.'
By the end of World War I, Puccini was looking for a story to set. La Rondine had premiered in 1917 in Monte Carlo and the triple- bill Il Trittico in 1918 at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Renato Simoni suggested he consider a play by the Venetian commedia dell'arte specialist Carlo Gozzi (Puccini met Simoni, author of the libretto for Franchetti's Madame Sans-Gne, in 1919).See the full content of this document
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The Tragedy of Turandot
Puccini thought about it and then chose Gozzi's Turandotte - one of the playwright's 10 "dramatic fables," written between 1761 and 1765. Puccini had se...
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