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Turandot
1926 opera by Giacomo Puccini
For other uses, see Turandot (disambiguation).
Turandot (Italian pronunciation:[turanˈdo][1][2]or[turanˈdɔt]ⓘ;[3][4]see below) is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to a libretto in Italian by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni. Puccini left the opera unfinished at the time of his death in 1924; it premiered in 1926 after the music was posthumously completed by Franco Alfano.
The opera is set in China and follows the Prince Calaf, who falls in love with the cold Princess Turandot.[5] In order to win her hand in marriage, a suitor must solve three riddles, with a wrong answer resulting in his execution. Calaf passes the test, but Turandot refuses to marry him. He offers her a way out: if she is able to guess his name before dawn the next day, he will accept death.
Origin and pronunciation of the name
[edit]The title of the opera is derived from the Persian term Turandokht (توراندخت, 'daughter of Turan'), a name frequently given to Central Asian princesses in Persian poetry. Turan is a region of Central Asia that was once part of the Persian Empire. It also applies to the Mongols who were emperors of China during the Yuan dynasty. Dokht is a con
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Puccini’s large-economy-size Chinese game-show where local Princes compete for the hand of the Emperor’s recalcitrant daughter has always been my favorite. New recordings, be they good or not-so-much, have always brought my renewed appreciation for its incredible vocal writing and kaleidoscopic orchestrations. If only Puccini hadn’t died before finishing it. But that’s another tale.
Also, as a child of digital sound (which was glorious, but over-bright, in the beginning) the aural experience, most likely spoiled by Richard Mohr and his RCA engineers on the ‘Living Stereo’ team, has always been important to me. Some recordings are hard to abide by. Some of the more problematic are mentioned below. But all in all, Turandot, with its grand scale and the mighty forces it requires, has been uncommonly lucky on disc nearly from the beginning. Now with super high-fidelity remastering up from digital sound, and even very good analog, we have SACD (Super Audio CD) and even Blu-ray Audio that further widens out that sound palette. In some cases, it makes an enormous difference.
I cut my teeth on the 1972 Decca recording with Luciano Pavarotti, Joan Sutherland, Montserrat Caballe, and Nicolai Ghiarov. At the time I had no other knowledge of La Dame Joan’s prior musica
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