Ai Weiwei makes operatic debut with 'Turandot' in Rome

Ai Weiwei makes operatic debut with 'Turandot' in Rome

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Rome (AFP) March 22, 2022

Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei makes his directorial operatic debut in Rome on Tuesday with a new reading of Giacomo Puccini's final, unfinished opera, "Turandot". And with a storyline seeping with bloodshed and despotism, a new geopolitical focus and Ukrainian conductor Oksana Lyniv in the pit, the new production - originally meant to have premiered in 2020, but delayed because of the

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