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The Finales of Turandot: Puccini's Last ACT

The Finales of Turandot: Puccini's Last ACT

Burton, Deborah

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Research in Music

General MusicMusic Instruction: GeneralOpera

ISBN10: 1041047517
ISBN13: 9781041047513
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Sep 21 2026
Pages: 300
Weight: 1.38
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

How would Puccini have finished his last opera, Turandot, had he lived to complete it? In time for the centennial of the opera's posthumous premiere in 2026, Deborah Burton provides an in-depth examination of the different completions of the opera Turandot from 1925 to the present, with an emphasis on the social and musical contexts surrounding the author of each completion, as well as investigations of the musical contents of the finales themselves. Written by a Puccini scholar, the book demonstrates how each author had to contend not just with the notes and indications that Puccini left but with larger cultural and societal forces. Topics include the world of fascist Italy in which Franco Alfano wrote his 1925 completions, the postmodern musical forces that shaped Luciano Berio's 2001 finale, questions of individual creative freedom in Hao Weiya's 2008 commission from the Chinese government, and the rising reaction to negative female and racial stereotypes that informed Christopher Tin's 2024 finale.

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