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Arrangement 30
Turandot
G. Puccini
When Giacomo Puccini died in Brussels in November 1924 as a result of cancer, his composition of "Turandot" was still unfinished. The composer Franco Alfano (1876-1954) was then commissioned to complete the opera. At the premiere at the Teatro alla Scala, the work was performed as a homage to Puccini only up to Liù’s death aria. The conductor Arturo Toscanini addressed the audience at this point: "Here the opera ends, because this is where the master died".
"Turandot" can be regarded as the culmination of Puccini’s creative output, since it perfectly combines all four elements that characterize his incomparable style: The slave Liù symbolizes the lyrical-sentimental element, the pair Turandot/Kalaf the heroic, while the three courtiers stand for the comic-grotesque. The exotic element is achieved by using authentic Chinese sages and pentatonic motifs.
Compared to his other works, "Turandot" has greater echoes of contemporary musical trends, as well as dissonances, polytonal effects and, for the traditionally trained listener, irritating effects in singing and orchestration, making it - compared to his earlier operas - long less popular with the audience. In the meantime, however, Puccini’s last work has established itself on the opera stages. In it, his life’s work is bundled and gives room for speculation as to what the composer’s further musical development might have been like.
Turandot, G. Puccini, the 15.
Daniel Harding - Davide Livermore
Anna Netrebko
Anna Netrebko, born in 1971 in Krasnodar, Russia, studied singing at the St. Petersburg Conservatory and with Renata Scotto. She is considered to be the best and most famous soprano of our time - at the beginning of her career also as a pop star of the classical music scene, although she dedicates herself exclusively to classical music. Her performances are all a (media) event and always completely sold out. Anna Netrebko is a regular guest at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the San Francisco Opera, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, the Opéra national de Paris, the Vienna and Berlin State Operas and at the Zurich Opera House and the Salzburg Festival. There she celebrated her final international breakthrough in 2002 as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni under the direction of Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
Her repertoire includes roles such as Violetta Valéry (La traviata), Maddalena di Coigny (Andrea Chénier), Lady Macbeth (Macbeth), Leonora (Il trovatore), Tatjana (Eugen Onegin), Elsa (Lohengrin) as well as the title roles in Tosca, Aida, Lucia di Lammermoor, Adriana Lecouvreur and Manon Lescaut. Numerous DVDs and CDs prove her enormous popularity and charisma as a gifted singer. Her song recitals and performances are experienced by critics and audiences alike as great moments and are greeted with frenetic applause.
In 2006 she was also granted Austrian citizenship. Anna Netrebko has a son from the partnership with the bass baritone Erwin Schrott and is currently married to the tenor Yusif Eyvazov.
Anna Netrebko,
Rosa Feola
The Italian Rosa Feola (*1986) belongs to the select circle of singers whose soprano voice shines in the heights without losing its soft suppleness.
Feola first achieved great international attention in 2010 when she won the Second Prize, the Audience Prize and the Zarzuela Prize at Plácido Domingo’s Operalia Competition. Much acclaimed debuts and engagements followed at Milan’s Teatro alla Scala and Teatro La Fenice Venice, the Metropolitan Opera New York, the Vienna State Opera, the Zurich Opera House, the Bavarian State Opera Munich and the festival stages in Salzburg, Ravenna and Glyndebourne, to name but a few stages.
The soprano’s repertoire includes the roles of Gilda (‘Rigoletto’), Susanna (‘Le Nozze di Figaro’), Musetta (‘La bohème’), Violetta (‘La traviata’), Corinna (‘Il viaggio à Reims’), Lauretta (‘Gianni Schicci’) or the title role of Lucia di Lammermoor. In addition to the great operatic works, Feola also performs in recitals, from contemplative recitals with piano to Rossini’s Stabat Mater.
Rosa Feola, Roberto Alagna, Vitalij Kowaljow
Teatro alla Scala
L’histoire de Manon, J. Massenet, the 16.
Paul Connelly - Kenneth MacMillan
Teatro alla Scala



Hotel informations for Milan 30
Milan, Grand Hotel et de Milan Milan, Grand Hotel et de Milan
Grand Hotel et de Milan *****
The Grand Hotel et de Milan ***** is one of the oldest buildings of the city, and is ideally located just a step away from La Scala. The hotel’s hospitality and atmosphere has always attracted many artists, including Verdi, who stayed and worked there on numerous occasions. The antique furnishing enriches the very unique atmosphere of the Grand Hotel, which combines refined interior design and classical style. The hotel offers a fitness center and a restaurant Don Carlos that proposes a traditional Italian cuisine.
Milan, De La Ville Milan, De La Ville
De La Ville ****
The De la Ville hotel **** enjoys an ideal location near the Teatro alla Scala in the historical centre of Milan. The refined atmosphere, the carefully 108 furnished rooms, the bathrooms of marble and the charming paneling make this luxurious hotel welcoming and comfortable.



All-inclusive price per person for Milan 30
Single room/ night
Grand Hotel et de Milan
2.690,- Euro
210-280,- Euro
De La Ville
1.990,- Euro
140-210,- Euro



The price includes
Overnights including breakfast, good opera tickets, scheduled flight, return taxi transfers, travel cancellation expenses insurance.