![]() ![]() Toscanini authorized up-and-coming composer Franco Alfano to finish the manuscript, and that's the version we hear today. Legendary conductor Arturo Toscanini, who would conduct the opera's world premiere at Milan's La Scala and dramatically end the performance at the precise moment in the score where Puccini stopped his orchestration, had been asked by a dying Puccini “not to let Turandot die.” There were sketches of the final scene and Adami and Simoni's completed libretto that remained, but the music was left hanging. It was the cigarettes that killed him, leaving his final masterpiece, Turandot, unfinished. ![]() Composer Giacomo Puccini loved fast cars, fast women, and cigarettes.
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