Who conducted the premiere of 'Turandot' at La Scala in 1926?
"He also took an active role in Alfano's completion of Puccini's ""Turandot"". He also conducted the first Italian performances of ""Siegfried"", ""Götterdämmerung"", ""Salome"", ""Pelléas et Mélisande"", and ""Euryanthe"", as well as the South American premieres of ""Tristan und Isolde"" and ""Madama Butterfly"" and the North American premieres of ""Boris Godunov"" and Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7. He also conducted the world premiere of Samuel Barber's ""Adagio for Strings"" Toscanini made his first recordings in December 1920 with the La Scala Orchestra in the Trinity Church studio of the Victor Talking Machine Company in Camden, New Jersey and his last with"
"and Sieglinde for the La Scala Ring Cycle of 1924–25. She also played the title role in ""Turandot"". She was in the audience for the April 1926 premiere at La Scala and first sang it in December that year at the Teatro Grande in Brescia. In 1928, she performed it at the Covent Garden (also playing Aida and Santuzza during the season), and in 1929, she took the part at La Scala. Recordings of her Turandot recorded live at Covent Garden in 1937 with Giovanni Martinelli as Calaf and John Barbirolli conducting remained unissued at the time but were released"
"newspaper that she had playfully told Puccini that he ""better be sure to put in plenty of high C's."" On October 7, 1924, less than two months before Puccini died, Angelo Scandiani, administrative director of La Scala, wired Herbert Johnson of the Chicago Opera that Puccini and Toscanini had cast three Chicago Opera artists, Rosa Raisa, Edith Mason, and Giaccomo Rimini, for the lead roles in the upcoming ""Turandot"". At that time it was thought that the premiere would take place in April 1925, but Puccini's death at the end of November 1924 postponed these plans; Franco Alfano was selected"
"Turandot (Gozzi) Turandot (1762) is a ""commedia dell'arte"" play by Count Carlo Gozzi after a supposedly Persian story from the collection ""Les Mille et un jours"" (1710–1712) by François Pétis de la Croix (not to be confused with ""One Thousand and One Nights""). Gozzi's ""Turandot"" was first performed at the Teatro San Samuele, Venice, on 22 January 1762. Gozzi's play has given rise to a number of subsequent artistic endeavours, including combinations of: versions/translations by Schiller, Karl Vollmoeller and Brecht; theatrical productions by Goethe, Max Reinhardt and Yevgeny Vakhtangov; incidental music by Weber, Busoni and Wilhelm Stenhammar; and operas by"
"Turandot (Busoni) Turandot is a 1917 opera with spoken dialogue and in two acts by Ferruccio Busoni. Busoni prepared his own libretto, in German, based on the play by Count Carlo Gozzi. The music for Busoni's opera is based on the incidental music, and the associated ""Turandot Suite"" (BV 248), which Busoni had written in 1905 for a production of Gozzi's play. The opera is often performed as part of a double bill with Busoni's earlier one-act opera ""Arlecchino"". Carlo Gozzi's play ""Turandot"" first appeared in 1762. It was originally written to be performed in the small theatre of San"
"of the United States and in South America for performances, usually performing together. They also maintained a villa in Verona where they would spend their summers and occasionally appear in operas. Most notably, Rimini originated the role of Ping in Puccini's ""Turandot"" at La Scala in 1926 opposite his wife in the title role. He also was the first person to completely record the role of Falstaff, which he also did with La Scala forces in 1932. In 1933 the Riminis appeared in a European tour with Teatro alla Scala's singers, which included a one-week series of performances at the"
"how it was performed with the Princess's puppets in the music room of her Paris estate on 25 June of that year, with Vladimir Golschmann conducting. Hector Dufranne sang Don Quijote (Quixote), Wanda Landowska played the harpsichord (Falla composed his 1926 Harpsichord Concerto for her in appreciation), and Ricardo Viñes and Emilio Pujol were among the artists and musicians serving as stagehands. Also at the premiere was Francis Poulenc, who met Landowska for the first time; she asked him to write a harpsichord concerto for her, and his ""Concert champêtre"" was the result. The world premiere was given as a"
"Turandot (Brecht) Turandot or the Whitewashers' Congress is an epic comedy by the German modernist playwright Bertolt Brecht. It was written during the summer of 1953 in Buckow and substantially revised in light of a brief period of rehearsals in 1954, though it was still incomplete at the time of Brecht's death in 1956 and did not receive its first production until several years later. It premièred on 5 February 1969 at the Zürich Schauspielhaus, in a production directed by Benno Besson and Horst Sagert, with music by Yehoshua Lakner. The story is loosely based on Count Carlo Gozzi's ""commedia"
"Salvatini in the title role), Berlin (8 November), New York (Metropolitan Opera, 16 November), Brussels (La Monnaie, 17 December, in French), Naples (Teatro San Carlo, 17 January 1927), Parma (12 February), Turin (17 March), London (Covent Garden, 7 June), San Francisco (19 September), Bologna (October 1927), Paris (29 March 1928), Australia 1928, Moscow (Bolshoi Theatre, 1931). ""Turandot"" is a staple of the standard operatic repertoire and it appears as number 17 on the Operabase list of the most-performed operas worldwide. For many years, the government of the People's Republic of China forbade performance of ""Turandot"" because they said it portrayed"
"Maria Zamboni Maria Zamboni (25 July 1895 – 25 March 1976) was an Italian operatic soprano who had a prolific career in Italy and South America between 1921 and 1936. Admired for her vivid character portrayals and expressive singing, Zamboni was a popular and frequent performer at both La Scala and the Teatro Costanzi. Her repertoire encompassed a broad spectrum, from Verdi and Wagner heroines to French grand opera and verismo roles. She became particularly associated with the works of Giacomo Puccini and notably sang the role of Liu in the original 1926 production of ""Turandot"". Zamboni was born at"
"Scala's Scuola di Perfezionamento. She made her Italian debut as Turandot in Treviso in 1975, and essayed the same role for her 1983 La Scala debut opposite tenor Plácido Domingo in Franco Zeffirelli's lavish production. Her Turandot is also preserved in a video of the Arena di Verona production from 1983, with Nicola Martinucci and Cecilia Gasdia. In 1988, she made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York performing the same role. Dimitrova once said of the role: ""Turandot may not be my favorite part, but it shows off the voice to great advantage. The way the music"
"of Chinese ""Xìqǔ"" (literally, ""theater of song""), often referred to as Chinese Opera. Notes Citations Sources Turandot (Gozzi) Turandot (1762) is a ""commedia dell'arte"" play by Count Carlo Gozzi after a supposedly Persian story from the collection ""Les Mille et un jours"" (1710–1712) by François Pétis de la Croix (not to be confused with ""One Thousand and One Nights""). Gozzi's ""Turandot"" was first performed at the Teatro San Samuele, Venice, on 22 January 1762. Gozzi's play has given rise to a number of subsequent artistic endeavours, including combinations of: versions/translations by Schiller, Karl Vollmoeller and Brecht; theatrical productions by Goethe,"
"Gay in the title role. That same year he made his debut at La Scala in Milan as Ping in Puccini's ""Turandot"". He remained committed to La Scala as a resident artist for the next 20 years. From 1926-1928 he made numerous appearances at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, including starring roles in the world premieres of Rafael Peacan del Sar's ""Chrysantheme"" (1927) and Raúl Espoile's ""Frenos"" (1928). Other operas he sang in Buenos Aires were ""Turandot"", Ildebrando Pizzetti's ""Fra Gherardo"", Felice Lattuada's ""Le preziose ridicole"", and Ottorino Respighi's ""La campana sommersa"". In 1932 Vanelli appeared in the world"
"prima donna of Italian opera in the Netherlands. The Dutch audience admired her, among other things as Leonora in ""La forza del destino"" and in ""Il trovatore"", as Tosca, as the title heroine in ""La Gioconda"", and as Santuzza in ""Cavalleria rusticana"". In 1930 and 1932 Jacobo performed very successfully at La Scala as Turandot. In 1938, she sang there, the Lady Macbeth in ""Macbeth"" by Verdi, also 1938, Abigail in ""Nabucco"" at the Festival in the Arena of Verona. In 1940 she appeared at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino as Turandot. In 1933 she was at the Vienna State Opera"
"""Turandot"" in Berlin, acquired the rights to it and brought Reinhardt's entire production to London in 1913. Jethro Bithell made an authorised English translation of the Gozzi-Vollmöller play. ""Turandot"" (with Stern's scenery and costumes, and Fried conducting) opened on 8 January 1913 at the St James's Theatre, London. However, Busoni had not been to any rehearsals, and when he attended the first performance he was appalled. Johan Wijsman (the dedicatee of the ""Berceuse"", BV 252), had made an unauthorised reduced version of Busoni's score for a 20-piece theatre orchestra. The producer had inserted music by other composers alongside Busoni's own,"
"Miguel Fleta Miguel Burro Fleta (28 December 1897, Albalate de Cinca, Huesca Province, Aragon, Spain - 29 May 1938, A Coruña) was a Spanish operatic tenor. Despite his short stage career, lasting from 1919 to 1935, Fleta has been described as one of the most significant Iberian opera singers of the 20th century. Among the important international venues at which he sang were La Scala, Milan, (in 1923-26) and the New York Metropolitan Opera (in 1923-25). Additionally, in 1926, he had the honour of creating the role of Calaf in Puccini's posthumously-premiered final opera, ""Turandot"", at the insistence of La"
"being more in keeping with Puccini's evolving technique. See also List of operas by Franco Alfano. Operas Other compositions Notes Franco Alfano Franco Alfano (8 March 1875 in Posillipo, Naples – 27 October 1954 in Sanremo) was an Italian composer and pianist, best known today for his opera ""Risurrezione"" (1904) and above all for having completed Puccini's opera ""Turandot"" in 1926. He had considerable success with several of his own works during his lifetime. Alfano was born in Posillipo, Naples. He attended piano lessons given privately by Alessandro Longo, and harmony and composition respectively under Camillo de Nardis (1857–1951) and"
"in the United States premiere of Giacomo Puccini's ""Turandot"", and was one of the earliest exponents of that role. She performed that role 9 times at the Met, and also performed the role for the work's Philadelphia debut at the Academy of Music. She continued at the Met through 1930 with her final performance there being Nedda in ""Pagliacci"". In 1927 she portrayed the title role in Puccini's ""Tosca"" with the Philadelphia Grand Opera Company. That same year she performed at the American Legion Convention in Paris. She was also active as a recitalist, performing in such venues as Carnegie"
"her tenure, major works which had not been performed before in Rome (or even in Italy) were staged. These included ""La fanciulla del West"", ""Turandot"" and ""Il trittico"" by Giacomo Puccini; ""Parsifal"" by Richard Wagner; ""Francesca da Rimini"" by Riccardo Zandonai; ""Boris Godunov"" by Modest Mussorgsky; ""Samson et Dalila"" by Camille Saint-Saëns and many others. Diaghilev's Ballets Russes also performed. In November 1926 the Costanzi was bought by the Rome City Council and its name changed to ""Teatro Reale dell'Opera"". A partial rebuilding ensued, led by architect Marcello Piacentini and lasting fifteen months. The house re-opened on 27 February 1928"
"""Fernand Cortez"". Merli would sing widely in Italy and South America during the next decade, and also toured Australia in 1928 with an opera company composed of leading La Scala singers and sponsored by Dame Nellie Melba (who also sang during that tour, in roles such as Mimi in ""La bohème"", despite being 67 years old). The tour included Merli singing Calaf in the Australian premiere of Puccini's ""Turandot"". He appeared regularly in London at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, from 1926 to 1930, where, among other things, he was the first Calaf to be heard in Great Britain."
"including Aelfrida in Deems Taylor's ""The King's Henchman"" on 17 February 1927 and Mother Tyl in Wolff's ""L'oiseau bleu"". She was also featured in many American premieres including ""La cena delle beffe"", ""Così fan tutte"" and ""Der Rosenkavalier"". Her repertoire included more than 100 roles in 4 languages. She appeared with Chaliapin, a bass singer of great renown, and also with the famous Enrico Caruso at his last performance, on Christmas Eve 1920, when she was Rachel to his Eleazar in Halevy's ""La Juive"". By 1926 she was earning $800 for each performance of ""Turandot"". In 1929 she sang her"
"Zadek, Christel Goltz, Rosette Anday, Anneliese Rothenberger), ""Assassinio nella cattedrale"" (1960, reviving Wallmann's 1958 La Scala production; conducted by Herbert von Karajan, starring Hans Hotter, Kurt Equiluz, Anton Dermota, Gerhard Stolze, Paul Schöffler, Walter Berry, Hilde Zadek, Christa Ludwig), ""La forza del destino"" (1960; conducted by Dimitri Mitropoulos; starring Antonietta Stella, Giuseppe di Stefano, Ettore Bastianini, Giulietta Simionato), ""Turandot"" (1961; conducted by Francesco Molinari-Pradelli, starring Birgit Nilsson, Giuseppe di Stefano, Leontyne Price), and ""Don Carlos"" (1962; conducted by Oliviero de Fabritiis, starring Flaviano Labò, Boris Christoff, Hans Hotter, Sena Jurinac, Eberhard Wächter, Giulietta Simionato). In 1958, on 19 and 20"
"alla Scala in Milan, as Madama Butterfly, in 1925, and appeared there until 1937. Afterwards she began singing at all the major opera houses of Europe; the Monte Carlo Opera in 1927, the Royal Opera House in London, from 1928 to 1933, the Liceu in Barcelona and the Vienna State Opera in 1930, the Lyric Opera of Chicago from 1931 to 1932, and the Paris Opéra in 1935. She also appeared in Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro. A great Puccini interpreter, especially as Madama Butterfly, she also sang ""Manon Lescaut"", ""La bohème"", ""Tosca"", and Liu in ""Turandot"", also Mascagni's"
"Princess Turandot Princess Turandot (German: Prinzessin Turandot) is a 1934 German comedy film directed by Gerhard Lamprecht and starring Käthe von Nagy and Willy Fritsch. A separate French-language version ""Turandot, Princess of China"" was also released. The script, by Thea von Harbou, includes elements of Puccini's opera ""Turandot"" and Friedrich Schiller's adaptation of Carlo Gozzi's 1762 play ""Turandot"". The film sets were designed by the art directors Robert Herlth and Walter Röhrig. The music was by Franz Doelle with song lyrics by Bruno Balz and C. Amberg (including the opening ""Turandot, bezaubernde Turandot"" - 'enchanting Turandot'), and the sound engineer"
"own libretto, also possibly using the translation which Karl Vollmoeller had made for the 1911 Reinhardt production. The opera was first performed in the Stadttheater, Zürich (now the Zürich Opera House) 11 May 1917. Wilhelm Stenhammar wrote his ""Musik till Carlo Gozzis skådepel ""Turandot"""" (""Music for Gozzi's spectacle ""Turandot""""), Op. 42 (1920) for flute, clarinet, bassoon and percussion (triangle, cymbals, bass drum and tamtam), as incidental music for a (Swedish?) production of the Gozzi play. ""See also"" § External links ""below"". Yevgeny Vakhtangov staged a highly acclaimed avant-garde performance of Gozzi's play in Moscow in 1921. Giacomo Puccini said in"
"Milan, between the two world wars. A highlight of his Milan seasons occurred in 1929 when he was chosen to sing Arnoldo in La Scala’s centenary production of Rossini’s ""Guglielmo Tell"". He was also a leading tenor at the New York Metropolitan Opera from 1923 to 1933, appearing there in a total of 307 performances. During this 10-year period he sang opposite Maria Jeritza in the American premiere of Puccini’s ""Turandot"" and opposite Rosa Ponselle in the Met premiere of Verdi’s ""Luisa Miller"". His Met career was terminated prematurely after a dispute with the opera house's management. They wanted him"
"Busoni, Puccini and Havergal Brian. Turandot was deliberately written in the Commedia del'arte style by Gozzi, as part of a campaign in his literary war against the bourgeois, realistic works of Pietro Chiari and Carlo Goldoni. Gozzi was intimate with the out-of work theatre troupe of Antonio Sacchi, an inveterate ""commedia"" Truffaldino. It was first performed by Sacchi's troupe at the Teatro San Samuele in Venice on 22 January 1762, and received seven subsequent performances. The choice of theatre itself was a pointed attack on Goldoni, since he had been the theatre's director between 1737–1741. In the end, Gozzi won"
"destino"", ""Isabeau"", ""Manon Lescaut"", ""La bohème"" (as Mimì, opposite Enrico Caruso), ""La damnation de Faust"", ""Lohengrin"", ""Parisina"", ""Mefistofele"" (with Feodor Chaliapin), ""Pagliacci"", ""Iris"" (with Beniamino Gigli), ""Der Rosenkavalier"" (as Octavian, opposite Rosa Raïsa and Amelita Galli-Curci), ""Cavalleria rusticana"", ""Le prince Igor"", ""Andrea Chénier"", ""Die Meistersinger"", ""Tosca"", ""Siberia"", ""La rondine"" (with Tito Schipa), ""Lodoletta"", ""Manon"", ""Falstaff"", ""Suor Angelica"", ""Gianni Schicchi"", ""L'amore dei tre re"", ""Madama Butterfly"", ""Otello"", ""Francesca da Rimini"", ""Il piccolo Marat"" (world premiere at Rome, 1921, with Hipólito Lázaro), ""Giulietta e Romeo"" (world premiere at Rome, 1922), ""Louise"", ""La traviata"", ""Thaïs"", ""Fedora"", ""Turandot"" (the title role), ""Luisa Miller"", ""La"
"Franco Alfano Franco Alfano (8 March 1875 in Posillipo, Naples – 27 October 1954 in Sanremo) was an Italian composer and pianist, best known today for his opera ""Risurrezione"" (1904) and above all for having completed Puccini's opera ""Turandot"" in 1926. He had considerable success with several of his own works during his lifetime. Alfano was born in Posillipo, Naples. He attended piano lessons given privately by Alessandro Longo, and harmony and composition respectively under Camillo de Nardis (1857–1951) and Paolo Serrao at the conservatory San Pietro a Majella in Naples. Later, after graduating, he pursued further composition studies with"
"was Dr. Fritz Seidel. Princess Turandot Princess Turandot (German: Prinzessin Turandot) is a 1934 German comedy film directed by Gerhard Lamprecht and starring Käthe von Nagy and Willy Fritsch. A separate French-language version ""Turandot, Princess of China"" was also released. The script, by Thea von Harbou, includes elements of Puccini's opera ""Turandot"" and Friedrich Schiller's adaptation of Carlo Gozzi's 1762 play ""Turandot"". The film sets were designed by the art directors Robert Herlth and Walter Röhrig. The music was by Franz Doelle with song lyrics by Bruno Balz and C. Amberg (including the opening ""Turandot, bezaubernde Turandot"" - 'enchanting Turandot'),"
"there were Aida, Amelia in Verdi's ""Un ballo in maschera"", Marta in Eugen d'Albert's ""Tiefland"", Myrtocle in d'Albert's ""Die toten Augen"", Rachel in ""La Juive"", Santuzza in Pietro Mascagni's ""Cavalleria rusticana"", Senta in ""The Flying Dutchman"", Valentine, and the title roles in Georges Bizet's ""Carmen"" and Puccini's ""Tosca"". She was committed again to the Berlin State Opera from 1924-1926 where she was heard in the title role of Puccini's ""Turandot"" for the work's Berlin premiere in 1926 under the baton of Bruno Walter. She then returned to the Deutsche Oper Berlin where she was active until her retirement from the"
"La Tosca La Tosca is a five-act drama by the 19th-century French playwright Victorien Sardou. It was first performed on 24 November 1887 at the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin in Paris, with Sarah Bernhardt in the title role. Despite negative reviews from the Paris critics at the opening night, it became one of Sardou's most successful plays and was toured by Bernhardt throughout the world in the years following its premiere. The play itself is no longer performed, but its operatic adaptation, Giacomo Puccini's ""Tosca"", has achieved enduring popularity. There have been several other adaptations of the play including"
"to the end of the work from approximately rehearsal number 17. However, this is sometimes changed to a crescendo (especially if performing the Suite). World premiere Lausanne, Switzerland, 28 September 1918, conducted by Ernest Ansermet. Other countries UK Concert Suite: 1920, London, conducted by Ernest Ansermet. Full staging, 1926, Newcastle upon Tyne, conducted by Edward Clark. Three further fully staged performances in London in July 1927. France Full staging (by Diaghilev), Paris, 1924 Germany 1924: Frankfurt, and Wiesbaden (conducted by Otto Klemperer) US Ballet version: New York City Opera, New York State Theater, Lincoln Center: 1978: Directed by Frank Corsaro"