Word: alfano
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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...whole seemed thick, noisy, lacking in coherence, stretched this way and that to cover three acts for which there was insufficient substance. Not the old Puccini at all, it seemed, until the concluding love duet and finale which was not his but his friend's, Franco Alfano's, who wrote it after his death...
...audience, said: "The composer worked until this point and then died." It seemed uncanny to the audience that it should have ended with the slave girl's aria, the one big bit of unaffected melody. They waited eagerly to hear the ending written by Puccini's friend, Franco Alfano, from Puccini's notes, with which the Scala company is already prepared. They commended, meanwhile, the superb Turandot of Rosa Raisa, the creditable Prince of Miguel Fleta, the attractive, winning Liu of Maria Zamboni...
...Turandot, posthumous opera of Giacomo Puccini, finished by his friend Franco Alfano, to have its world premiere this week at La Scala, Milan...
...Chicago, in the huge Auditorium, occasional playhouse of the Chicago Civic Opera troupe, a resplendent crowd ogled one another, visited back and forth, chatted and chattered. They were waiting for the curtain to rise on the world's premiere of Resurrection, the opera by Franco Alfano based on Tolstoy's pity-evoking novel, the opera personally selected last summer by Mary Garden shrewd in showmanship, for her next important vehicle. The performance was called a triumph...
While performing, Miss Garden possibly thought of poor Franco Alfano, composer of the piece, fumbling about his quarters in Turin, Italy; knew he was in heart-sick misery, was going blind; immediately after the performance cabled him in English and in Italian: Resurrection a great success. Congratulations and Happy New Year...