Turandot, Puccini's final opera, was left unfinished, and the last two scenes were completed by Franco Alfano based on the composer's sketches.

Plaque at Puccini's last residence in Brussels

Her last Met appearance was on July 6, 1973 in the title role of Giacomo Puccini's Tosca with Enrico Di Giuseppe as Cavaradossi, Morley Meredith as Scarpia, and Ignace Strasfogel conducting.

Her last appearance with the company was in November 1958 as Mimi in Puccini's La Bohème.

This was a style introduced by Pietro Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana and Ruggiero Leoncavallo's Pagliacci that came virtually to dominate the world's opera stages with such popular works as Giacomo Puccini's La bohème, Tosca, and Madama Butterfly.

In Italy, the American West as a dramatic setting for spectacles goes back at least as far as Giacomo Puccini's 1910 opera La fanciulla del West ; it is sometimes considered to be the first spaghetti western.

* August 17 – Margaret Harshaw, Metropolitan Opera soprano, sings the role of Turandot in Puccini's opera Turandot at the New York World's Fair.

However, it was outshone by Puccini's opera of the same name and on the same subject, which was premiered in 1896.

The soundtrack by Yoko Kanno is largely influenced by Puccini's opera.

The opera was unfinished at the time of Puccini's death in 1924 and was completed by Franco Alfano in 1926.

Puccini's editor Giulio Ricordi decided on Alfano because his opera La leggenda di Sakùntala resembled Turandot in its setting and heavy orchestration.

* Suzuki, the lady's maid in Puccini's opera Madama Butterfly

The celesta is used in many 20th century opera scores, including Puccini's Tosca ( 1900 ), Ravel's L ' heure espagnole ( 1911 ), Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos ( 1912 ), and Die Frau ohne Schatten ( 1918 ), while " an excellent example of its beauty when well employed ", is the Silver Rose scene in his Der Rosenkavalier ( 1911 ), Busoni's Arlecchino ( 1917 ) and Doktor Faust ( 1925 ), Orff's Der Mond ( 1939 ), Menotti's Amelia Goes to the Ball ( 1937 ), Britten's The Turn of the Screw ( 1954 ) and A Midsummer Night's Dream ( 1960 ), Susa's Transformations ( 1973 ), and Philip Glass ' Akhnaten ( 1984 ).

Lastly, " OperaAction ", the " Youth Education Program " established a program of events, including three Youth performances of Puccini's Madama Butterfly and, in 1986, Winds of the Solstice, an original youth opera created by 70 students working on libretto, music, choreography and orchestration and presented at the Sydney Opera House.

( It is best known in the West through Puccini's famous opera Turandot ( 1921 – 24 ).

His epitaph is taken from one account of his remarks concluding the 1926 premiere of Puccini's unfinished Turandot: " Qui finisce l ' opera, perché a questo punto il maestro è morto " (" Here the opera ends, because at this point the maestro died ").

* April 11 – first public performance in the Metropolitan Opera House, of Giacomo Puccini's La fanciulla del West, though the official opening of the new opera house would not take place until September 16.

* April 25-Première of Giacomo Puccini's opera Turandot at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan.

The play is a deconstruction of Giacomo Puccini's opera Madama Butterfly.

He also wrote several plays that were made into popular 19th-century operas such as La Tosca ( 1887 ) on which Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca ( 1900 ) is based, and Fedora by Umberto Giordano, a work that popularized the fedora hat as well.

It is based on Giacomo Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly, and similarly tells the tragic tale of a doomed romance involving an Asian woman abandoned by her American lover.

As a prison, it was also the setting for the third act of Giacomo Puccini's Tosca from whose ramparts the eponymous heroine of the opera leaps to her death.

The Castel is featured prominently in Puccini's opera Tosca.

At this time Paul Hindemith's Mathis der Maler was performing at the theatre and the following opera to be performed was Puccini's Turandot.

In Puccini's opera Tosca ( 1900 ), set in Napoleonic Rome, the heroine's confrontation with the malevolent Chief of Police, Scarpia, takes place in Palazzo Farnese.

Murger's collection formed the basis of Giacomo Puccini's opera La bohème ( 1896 ).

Some music critics and interpreters of Puccini's work have speculated that the psychological effects of this incident on Puccini interfered with his ability to complete compositions later in his career, and also influenced the development of Puccinian characters such as Liu ( from Turandot ), a slave girl who dies tragically by suicide.

* Turandot, libretto by Renato Simoni and Giuseppe Adami ( incomplete at the time of Puccini's death, completed by Franco Alfano: premiered at La Scala, 25 April 1926

* Ashbrook W. & Powers H. Puccini's Turandot: The End of the Great Tradition, Princeton Univ.

With Wagner came an emphasis on vocal heft for his protagonist roles, with this vocal category described as Heldentenor ; this heroic voice had its more Italianate counterpart in such roles as Calaf in Puccini's Turandot.

Though Puccini's first interest in the subject was based on his reading of Friedrich Schiller's adaptation of the play, his work is most nearly based on the earlier text Turandot by Carlo Gozzi.

The premiere of Turandot was at La Scala, Milan, on Sunday 25 April 1926, one year and five months after Puccini's death, with Rosa Raisa in the title role.

For example, in the aria ' Nessun dorma ' from Puccini's Turandot, the final lines in the libretto are " Tramontate, stelle!

Toscanini conducted the world premieres of many operas, four of which have become part of the standard operatic repertoire: Pagliacci, La bohème, La fanciulla del West and Turandot ; he took an active role in Alfano's completion of Puccini's Turandot.

* October 22 – Reopening of the Royal Opera House, London, with a production of Puccini's Turandot, conducted by Sir John Barbirolli and with Gertrude Grob-Prandl in the title role.

* " Nessun dorma " from Puccini's Turandot

This is not always true, however – Cavalleria rusticana, Pagliacci, Tosca, and other verismo operas have arias, duets and choruses that are constantly excerpted in recitals, and Turandot ( left incomplete at Puccini's death ) marks a return to a " numbers " style.

There were, however, many other veristi: Franco Alfano, best known however for completing Puccini's Turandot, Alfredo Catalani, Gustave Charpentier ( Louise ), Eugen d ' Albert ( Tiefland ), Ignatz Waghalter ( Der Teufelsweg and Jugend ), Alberto Franchetti, Franco Leoni, Jules Massenet ( La Navarraise ), Licinio Refice, Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, ( I gioielli della Madonna ), and Riccardo Zandonai.

The rebuilt, improved and expanded theater opened on October 7, 1999, with Puccini's Turandot as previewed in 1994 before the fire.

She is best known for her performances as Violetta in La traviata, Gilda in Rigoletto, Cio-Cio-San in Madama Butterfly, Mimì ( and occasionally Musetta ) in La bohème, Lucia in Lucia di Lammermoor, Adina in L ' elisir d ' amore, Liù in Turandot, Nedda in Pagliacci, all three leading soprano roles in Puccini's Il trittico, Adriana Lecouvreur, and Francesca in Zandonai's Francesca da Rimini.

Her 1997 album China Girl: The Classical Album 2 included her Violin Fantasy on Puccini's ' Turandot and Reunification Overture, marking the reunification of China and Hong Kong.