Turandot To obtain permission to marry her, a suitor has to solve three riddles; any wrong answer results in death. Calaf passes the test, but Turandot still refuses to marry him. He offers her a way out: if she is able to learn his name before dawn the next day, then at daybreak he will die. In the original story by Nizami, the princess sets four conditions. The first is "a good name and good deeds", and then the three challenges. The opera was unfinished at the time of Puccini's death in 1924, and was completed by Franco Alfano in 1926.
Enrico Alfano corruption. The investigation got new momentum when Gennaro Abbatemaggio, a young "camorrista" and a former "Carabinieri" informer serving a jail sentence in Naples, testified that the decision to kill Cuocolo, suspected of being a police spy, had been taken at a meeting at the restaurant chaired by Alfano. The developments of the case and suspected police corruption were discussed in parliament several times. Meanwhile, after his release, Alfano left Naples and went from village to village to elude arrest. The "Carabinieri" located him in San Leucio, near Caserta, but he managed to escape. He fled to Rome, obtained a false