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Puccini, the last splendor of opera

2021-01-21T14:32:07.906Z


A biography of Julian Budden, recently published in Spanish, traces the life and work of the Lucca composer, who closed with 'Turandot' three centuries of Italian lyrical tradition, overshadowed by the cinema from 1926


Posters for Giacomo Puccini's operas 'Tosca', 'Turandot' and 'Edgar'.

Turandot

is the opera by

Nessun dorma

, the romance that Luciano Pavarotti turned into a kind of pop success, in 1990, during the World Cup in Italy and the first concert of The Three Tenors.

But it also represents, for Julian Budden, the end of more than three centuries of op ...

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