James Tobin ([log in to unmask]) wrote: >... The story, up till the transformation of Turandot, including the >cheering of the crowd, is horrifying, yes. As is the plot of Tosca. Two >or three decades ago someone published an article, in Musical America, I >think, saying that Puccini was a Fascist and expressed cruelty in his >music. Doesn't Busoni's Turandot (which I infintely prefer BTW) also have essentially the same plot? Did this make Busoni a Fascist too? Deryk Barker [log in to unmask]