Word: turandote
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...lustre pervaded the gilded interior of the Scala Theatre, in Milan, last week, reminiscent. It was the occasion of the premiere of Turandot, posthumous opera of Giacomo Puccini, presented as he left it 17 months ago, unfinished. Critics, managers, connoisseurs the world over took the pilgrimage to Milan, hopefully, fearfully. Would Turandot be of the stuff of which La Boheme was made, La Tosca, Madame Butterfly?melodious, lovely, appealing, human above all operatic ingredients, or would it savor more of The Girl of the Golden West, of the later tryptich,* pappy, dull...
...Turandot, posthumous opera of Giacomo Puccini, finished by his friend Franco Alfano, to have its world premiere this week at La Scala, Milan...
...Metropolitan six years ago. These latter failures could detract little from his fame. Tosca, La Bohème, Madame Butterfly, Manon Lescaut are part of the regular repertoire of every opera company. Wherever a fiddle scrapes, his songs are heard. He left behind him an unfinished opera Turandot...
...MacKaye has taken the old Arabian Nights' story of Turandot and given it new garments. He has appealed to the child's heart that lies dormant in us all and proves that Romance is just as much alive today as it was a thousand years ago. The story of "A Thousand Years Ago" is that of Calaf, Prince of Astrakhan, whose father has been slain by Altoum, Emperor of China. Calaf is supposed to have been drowned but he reappears in the streets of Pekin in disguise and declares his mad love for Turandot, the daughter of the Emperor...
...Cooper Cliffe, who played the fantastic role of Capocomico, brought out the debonair and mischievous qualities of that part most admirably. Miss Rita Jolivet was a most winsome and attractive Turandot and Jerome Patrick made a handsome Calaf...