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Puccini had worked for nine months on the following concluding duet and at his death had left behind a whole ream of sketches Alfano had to reconstruct according to his best assessment and with his imagination and magnifying glass" since Puccini's material "had not really been
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Giovanni (1910–1914) -- La leggenda di Sakùntala, Tagore and tragedy (1915–1921) -- Turandot (1921–1925) -- Mary Garden—Vienna—Rostand (1926) -- Mussolini and
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333:Kālidāsa
331:play by
329:Sanskrit
317:, after
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102:(1936),
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1186:(2010)
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651:Ballet
649:Vesuvio
465:- Opera
432:Lorenza
404:Miranda
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219:Ricordi
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179:Bologna
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154:at the
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1287:(1936)
1271:(1904)
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