RC, that sounds great! How long are you there?
Ok, here's my shameless plug for the concert:
A Composer's Journey: Le Villi and Turandot Act III (Berio ending)
Puccini's first and last operas, Le Villi and Turandot (Act III, Luciano Berio ending), will be presented at Carnegie Hall on Monday, January 30, 2006 as part of a gala evening.
Giacomo Puccini is among opera's best-loved composers; yet, few audiences are familiar with his first opera Le Villi. Although it is his earliest opera, Le Villi illustrates Puccini's innate sense of melodic invention. The opera utilizes the same literary sources as the ballet Giselle.
His final work, Turandot, composed in the four years leading to his death in 1924 contains some of Puccini's most beloved melodies - the arias In questa reggia and Nessun dorma. Unfortunately, Puccini did not live to complete the final act of his opera. This performance will present the New York premiere of a new ending orchestrated by Luciano Berio, one of the most influential voices of the modern era.
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"Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. . ."