Word: puccini
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...Gozzi's comedies received the praise of Goethe, Schiller and other writers of the time, little attention was paid to them until recently. This summer-however, one of his satires "Re Turandote" adopted into German, was performed at Salzburg, Austria, under the direction of Max Reinhardt, and last month Puccini's posthumous opera based on the same story was sung at the Metropolitan...
Milan heard it first, then Dresden, Vienna, Rome, Rimini, Buenos Aires, Berlin. Last week it was given its U. S. premiere at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan-Turandot, posthumous opera of Giacomo Puccini, composer of Madame Butterfly, La Boheme, Tosca. The Metropolitan spared no expense and achieved a gorgeous spectacle-first the rambling walls of the Imperial Palace against a sandy Peking sky and a mumbling Chinese crowd gathered to hear a mandarin read the death decree of the youthful Prince of Persia who has failed to solve the three enigmas of the cruel Princess Turandot; dusk, and the great...
...villa, at Torre del Lago, of the late Giacomo Puccini, composer, will be made into a national museum at the government's expense: 15,000 lire...
Such taps as these awoke echoes; the very names were pregnant as the curtain of an opera house with musical memories. One. thought of Puccini dying alone in a Brussels hotel while Bohéme was being played in Manhattan and a critic there was writing, "Wherever a fiddle scrapes, his songs are heard. . . ." Of Maestro Fortune Gallo shouting, "I tell you my name is Fortune. . . . I tell you opera will pay. . . ." Of Signer Serafin imposing his electricity on the wavering scores of Metropolitan experiments. ... Of Toscanini throwing down his cello in the Opera House in Rio de Janeiro...
...evening frocks and white flannels, from dinner parties at Lake Forest or Winnetka. Two thousand spectators sat under a high wooden canopy. (It keeps the rain out and keeps the music within.) Many others sat on the grassy slopes counting stars, spellbound, one night last week, by strains of Puccini...