Turandot is an opera in three acts by the Italian composer Giacomo Puccini (see Puccini, Giacomo). The libretto (text), in Italian, was written by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni. It was based on an Oriental fairy-tale play written in 1762 by the Italian author and dramatist Carlo Gozzi. The opera was unfinished at Puccini's death in 1924 and was completed by another Italian composer, Franco Alfano. It received its first performance at La Scala, Milan, on April 25, 1926.