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Review | Washington National Opera’s new ‘Turandot’ gets a refreshing finale

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What to do about “Turandot”?

Washington National Opera has some fresh ideas in Francesca Zambello’s visually and vocally stunning new production, onstage at the Kennedy Center through May 25.

Giacomo Puccini’s relentlessly popular final opera doubles as the artform’s grandest piece of unfinished business. The composer died in 1924 before he could pen a proper ending, leaving composer Franco Alfano and librettist Giuseppe Adami a daunting responsibility: Make it make sense.

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