The True Story of an Amazing Piece of Music

And how it came to be such a formidable composition and performance.

Giacomo Puccini began working on Nessun Dorma in 1920, and one theory is that the opera is a response to the upheavals of World War I. The opera is set in the world of Turandot, which is a place of cruelty and horror, but love still exists within it. The title of the aria translates to “None shall sleep”.

I still have to listen to the entire song withou…