Puccini's last opera, it's set in Peking
[DOC] [TLE] Giving Puccini's Turandot the Finale it Deserves - WQXR [PAR] Feb 14, 2013 ... Puccini's opera, though, is no more authentically Chinese than Mozart's ... Its 
depiction of Peking's supposedly bloodthirsty populace, inhuman princess ... in 
any form: he famously set down his baton after the chorus's lament for Li.