Opera in three acts
Music by Puccini completed by Franco Alfano Libretto by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni after Gozzi
Sung in Italian: gramophone records

Cast in order of singing:
Chorus and Orchestra of the Opera House, Rome
Conducted by Francesco Molinart-Pradell
The action takes place in Peking, in legendary times
ACT 1
The walls of the Imperial city
3.36 First interval
3.50 ACT 2
Scene 1 A pavillion In the palace Scene 2 A vast square before the palace
4.35 Second interval
4.58 ACT 3
Scene 1 The palace garden
Scene 2 Outside the Imperial palace Last of five weekly broadcasts of operas by Puccini. with chamber music by Boccherinl during the intervals between the acts. Both composers were born in Lucca.

During the intervals
BOCCHERINI Chamber music
3.36 First interval
Piano Quintet in A major. Op.
57 No. played by the English String Quartet Nona Liddell (violin)
Marilyn Taylor (violin)
Marjorie Lempfert (viola) Helen Just (cello) with ALAN ROWLANDS (piano)
4.35 Second interval
Trio in G major, Op. 35 No. 2 Walter Schneiderhan (violin)
Gustav Swoboda (violin) Senta Benesch (cello) gramophone record