Italian composer of the operas La Bohème, Tosca and Madama Butterfly. His last, 图兰朵 (Turandot), is set in Beijing and quotes the folk song 茉莉花; Zhang Yimou staged it in the Forbidden City in 1998.
Tā zuì xǐhuan de gējù shì Pǔqìní de 《 Húdié Fūrén 》.
Her favorite opera is Puccini's Madama Butterfly.
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He never went to China: the Chinese tunes in Turandot reached him through a music box from Baron Fassini, a former Italian diplomat in China. The aria Nessun dorma is known in Chinese as 《今夜无人入睡》 'tonight no one sleeps'.
