Word: puccini
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...Puccini, so the story goes, was coaching her in the role in Vienna in 1913. When she accidentally fell to the floor, he cried, "Exactly right! Never do it any other way! It was from...
...Italian musical circles, short, homely Composer Luigi Dallapiccola is affectionately known as Il Bruttino-The Ugly One. For some Italian critics, the name also applies to his dodecafonico music. In Italy, the land of Verdi and Puccini, Luigi Dallapiccola, 46, is the chief disciple of Arnold Schoenberg's strange-to-the-ear twelve-tone technique...
...most often been likened to Puccini. Bar for bar, he bears scant resemblance, but Menotti's tender and romantic passages in particular come to the ear with something of Puccini's melodramatic appeal. Actually, Menotti says that Mussorgsky has been more his model; he has obviously learned from both Debussy and Prokofiev, too. He seldom strays far from traditional tonality, although he often uses sharp or strong dissonance for effect...
...Puccini: Turandot (Gina Cigna, soprano; Armando Giannotti, tenor; Luciano Neroni, basso; Francesco Merli, tenor; Magda Olivero, soprano; Afro Poli, baritone; EIAR Symphony Orchestra and chorus, Franco Ghione conducting; Cetra-Soria, 6 sides LP). Puccini's last, but not best opera gets as good a performance as possible. Recording: good...
...Puccini, in failing health, had not adorned his last opera with his most powerful or appealing music. It was the kind of piece opera fans wanted to hear once, for the historical'interest. But Turandot got a big hand and an A for effort...