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Thanks for clearing up the mystery about Gianni Schicchi and Suor Angelica.

And while I'm at it: IMSLP's pages for Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi warn that they're copyrighted in Canada and elsewhere--why would that be? Puccini died in 1924. Curiously, Il Tabarro, composed at the same time, has no such warning.

I have been told that Puccini's works are still copyrighted in Italy, and that one must pay a fee to Ricordi and/or SAIE to perform one of his operas. Does anyone know if this is true? He has been dead more than 70 years, which I thought was the copyright period in the EU. Ricordi claims that Puccin...