The_Kitchen_Guy
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The delicious irony:
I'm driving across Indiana listening to Turandot, Puccini's opera that is filled with haunting music, which takes place in China, is sung in Italian, and I'm listening on the radio to a radio broadcast of a visual medium.
Nessun dorma is so haunting.
The following is for music geeks only:
More irony: Puccini also died before he completed the opera. When it premiered in 1926, Arturo Toscanini laid down his baton in the middle of the third act and announced to the audience, "Here, the opera ends, where the maestro died."
There have been three endings written, one has never been performed.
I'm driving across Indiana listening to Turandot, Puccini's opera that is filled with haunting music, which takes place in China, is sung in Italian, and I'm listening on the radio to a radio broadcast of a visual medium.
Nessun dorma is so haunting.
The following is for music geeks only:
More irony: Puccini also died before he completed the opera. When it premiered in 1926, Arturo Toscanini laid down his baton in the middle of the third act and announced to the audience, "Here, the opera ends, where the maestro died."
There have been three endings written, one has never been performed.