Puccini's last opera: a dream-like work set in Ancient China about a frigid princess who beheads her suitors, a nameless prince, a masochistic slave-girl, and a deadly game of riddles.
66. Turandot (Giacomo Puccini)
Category: Italian composers
65. Caterina Cornaro (Gaetano Donizetti)
Donizetti's version of Halévy's Reine de Chypre. It isn't as good.
62. Olympie (Gaspare Spontini)
The fallout from the death of Alexander the Great.
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