By breaking this "law" of Rudyard Kipling, the East and the West met in the operas Madame Baterflai and Turandot by G. Puccini. The history of the operas' creation and their stage embodiment, the peculiarities of their functioning in the artistic culture of the XX-XXI centuries - these are the main highlights of the lecture by Valery Panasiuk, Doctor of Art History, Professor of Kyiv University of Arts.
2024 is the Year of Puccini's Memory. The great Italian composer died 100 years ago, and his last work, the "oriental" opera Turandot, remains an unfinished work - "open to eternity", an eternally mysterious text...
