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Italian stage and opera director Lamberto Puggelli was born in Milan in 1938. He began his career as a theatre director in the early 1960s at Gian Carlo Menotti's Spoleto Festival in Italy. He staged several operas at La Scala, the first being Turandot in 1966.
Puggelli, who had directed more than three hundred works, died on 11 August 2013 at Trecastagni, Catania, aged seventy-five.
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