Influences
The story of Turandot is
taken from a Persian
collection of stories called
The story contains a lot of
influences from the chinese
culture. This is logical since
it’s set in china. So the style
of clothing and the
backgrounds are typically
chinese.
The Book of One
Thousand and One Days
In his music several important
musicians of his time can be
heard. He used the good aspects
from for example debussy and
ravel, and added his own things to
it