Turandot room

Permanent event at the Puccini Museum in Lucca, Italy

11 September 2017

Turandot room. Courtesy of Puccini Museum

The study in the Puccini home, with decoration of the walls, in tempera, with patterned ribbons and garlands on a blue background (about 1910), housed the rich family library, with the scores of all the compositions of the Puccinis, music by other composers and valuable and important musical treatises.

Today it houses the costume for Act II of Turandot, donated by Maria Jeritza, in memory of the first production of the opera at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York (1926).

Puccini Museum

The museum preserves original furnishings, precious objects belonging to the musician, including autograph scores of young compositions (the first work, the Orchestral Prelude found in 1999, and the 4 voices Mass of 1880), many letters by and Giacomo Puccini ( like those by Giulio Ricordi), paintings, photographs, sketches, memorabilia and precious documents, such as copies of work and drafts of the libraries of Tosca and La fanciulla del West, a rare draft of the score of La fanciulla del West, a score de La rondine, full of autograph annotations and musical sketches.

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Lucca, Italy