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Riccardo Zandonai (30 May, 1883 – 5 June, 1944) was an Italian opera composer.

His fame rests largely on his opera Francesca da Rimini, a free adaptation of a passage from Dante's Inferno; it has never fallen entirely from the repertoire, and has been several times recorded. He married a soprano, Tarquinia Tarquini, who created the role of Conchita in his opera of the same name (dealing with a topic that Puccini had first considered, and then rejected).

When Puccini died before setting to music all of Turandot's last act, Zandonai was among several composers whom the Ricordi publishing firm considered for the task of completing the opera; Puccini himself, in his final illness, seems to have supported the choice of Zandonai - certainly Toscanini looked with approval on this choice - but his son Tonio Puccini, for reasons still obscure, vetoed it. Ultimately Franco Alfano

finished Turandot, and it is Alfano's version (which Toscanini much abridged and otherwise mauled) that is usually heard today.

Major works

Operas

La coppa del re (ca. 1906, never performed)
L'uccellino d'oro (1907)
Il grillo del focolare (1908)
Conchita (1911)
Melenis (1912)
Francesca da Rimini (1914)
La via della finestra (1919)
Giulietta e Romeo (1922)
I cavalieri di Ekebù (1925)
Giuliano (1928)
Una partita (1933)
La farsa amorosa (1933)
Il bacio (1944, left final act incomplete at death)

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