Turandot ( or ; ) is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini, set to a libretto in Italian by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni.

* 1926: Turandot by Giacomo Puccini

* Giacomo Puccini — Turandot ( 1926 )

* April 25-Première of Giacomo Puccini's opera Turandot at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan.

* Giacomo Puccini – Turandot

In 1997 and 1998, Mehta worked in collaboration with Chinese film director Zhang Yimou on a production of the opera Turandot by Giacomo Puccini which they took to Florence, Italy, and then to Beijing, China, where it was staged, in its actual surroundings, in the Forbidden City with over 300 extras and 300 soldiers.

" Nessun dorma " ( English: None shall sleep ) is an aria from the final act of Giacomo Puccini's opera Turandot, and is one of the best-known tenor arias in all opera.

Carl Van Vechten photo portrait of Wong, in costume for a dramatic adaptation of Giacomo Puccini | Puccini's Turandot at Westport Country Playhouse | Westport, August 11, 1937

** Liù, Turandot ( Giacomo Puccini )

** Turandot, Turandot ( Giacomo Puccini )

** Calaf, Turandot ( Giacomo Puccini )

This enables the singer to cut through the wall of sound produced by a full Romantic orchestra in a wide variety of roles, excluding only the most taxing ones written by the likes of Richard Wagner ( such as Brünhilde, Isolde, Tristan and Siegfried ), Giacomo Meyerbeer ( John of Leyden ), Verdi ( Otello ), Puccini ( Turandot, Calaf ) and Richard Strauss ( Elektra ).

* Turandot ( Giacomo Puccini )-Liu, a young slave

* The funeral march for Lìu in the opera Turandot, by Giacomo Puccini.

" Journey from Mariabronn " was inspired by Herman Hesse's Narcissus and Goldmund, while " Belexes " and " Aperçu " were influenced by the pseudo-Asian sound of Giacomo Puccini's Turandot.

He portrayed several more roles with the NYCO over the next seven years, including Dessalines in William Grant Still's Troubled Island ( 1949 ), the four villains in Jacques Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann ( 1949 ), Escamillo in Georges Bizet's Carmen ( 1949 ), Tchelio in Sergei Prokofiev's The Love for Three Oranges ( 1950 ), Tonio in Ruggero Leoncavallo's Pagliacci ( 1950 ), Timur in Giacomo Puccini's Turandot ( 1950 ), Alfio in Cavalleria rusticana ( 1950 ), The Messenger in the world premiere of David Tamkin's The Dybbuk ( 1951 ), the title role in Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto ( 1951 ), King Balthazar in Gian Carlo Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors ( 1952 ), Colline in Puccini's La bohème ( 1952 ), the title role in Béla Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle ( 1953 ), Count Almaviva in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro ( 1954 ), Joe in Show Boat ( 1954 ), Germont in Verdi's La Traviata ( 1955 ), and Diomede in the New York premiere of William Walton's Troilus and Cressida ( 1955 ) among others.

Frances Yeend in the title role of Giacomo Puccini's Turandot at the New York City Opera in 1957.

Later on in her career with the company she began portraying heavier roles from the dramatic soprano repertoire, including Amelia in Menotti's Amelia Goes to the Ball, Eva in Wagner's Die Meistersinger, the title role in Verdi's Aida, the title roles in Giacomo Puccini's Tosca and Turandot among others.

Her other roles at the Met during these thirteen years included Aida, Amelia in Verdi's Un ballo in maschera, Cio-Cio-San in Giacomo Puccini's Madama Butterfly, Donna Anna in Mozart's Don Giovanni, Elvira in Verdi's Ernani, Lady Macbeth in Verdi's Macbeth, Leonora in Verdi's Il trovatore, Leonora in Verdi's La forza del destino, Liù in Puccini's Turandot, Maddalena in Umberto Giordano's Andrea Chénier, Santuzza in Pietro Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana, and the title role in Amilcare Ponchielli's La Gioconda among others.

Paul Potts is a British tenor vocalist who in 2007 became the winner of the first series of ITV's Britain's Got Talent, singing an operatic aria, " Nessun Dorma " from Giacomo Puccini's Turandot.

In questa reggia ( In this palace ) is an aria from Giacomo Puccini's opera Turandot set to a libretto in Italian by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni.

The Weber themes are taken from incidental music Weber wrote for a play by Carlo Gozzi based on the same Turandot legend that later inspired Giacomo Puccini and others.

Some music critics and interpreters of Puccini's work have speculated that the psychological effects of this incident on Puccini interfered with his ability to complete compositions later in his career, and also influenced the development of Puccinian characters such as Liu ( from Turandot ), a slave girl who dies tragically by suicide.

Puccini first began working on Turandot in March 1920 after meeting with librettists Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni.

Puccini, however, seems to have had some inkling of the possible seriousness of his condition since, before leaving for Brussels, he visited Toscanini and begged him, " Don't let my Turandot die.

Ricordi's real concern was not the quality of Alfano's work, but that he wanted the end of Turandot to sound as if it had been written by Puccini, and Alfano's editing had to be seamless.

Puccini commissioned a set of 13 gongs constructed by the Tronci family specifically for Turandot.

* Calaf, Turandot ( Puccini )

* Pong, Turandot ( Puccini )

* Turandot by Puccini – Milan, April 25, 1926

* At the point where Puccini left off writing the finale of his unfinished opera, Turandot: " Here Death triumphed over art ".

** Erich Leinsdorf ( conductor ), Birgit Nilsson, Giorgio Tozzi, Jussi Björling, Renata Tebaldi & the Rome Opera Orchestra for Puccini: Turandot

These include treatments of Turandot by Karl Vollmöller and Bertolt Brecht, operas based on the same story by Busoni, and most famously Puccini and Prokofiev's The Love of Three Oranges.

It's worth noting also that Scotto recorded ( either in studio or in live performance ) the complete Puccini soprano repertoire with the exceptions of Turandot, Magda in La rondine and Minnie in La fanciulla del West.

* Puccini ; Turandot ( Liù ), Molinari-Pradelli, EMI, 1967

** Erich Leinsdorf ( conductor ), Birgit Nilsson, Giorgio Tozzi, Jussi Björling, Renata Tebaldi & the Rome Opera Orchestra for Puccini: Turandot

#[...] it is not his conclusion that is performed in productions of Turandot but only what the premiere conductor Arturo Toscanini included from it ... Puccini had worked for nine months on the following concluding duet and at his death had left behind a whole ream of sketches ... Alfano had to reconstruct ... according to his best assessment ... and with his imagination and magnifying glass " since Puccini's material " had not really been legible.

* Liù, Turandot ( Puccini )

With Wagner came an emphasis on vocal heft for his protagonist roles, with this vocal category described as Heldentenor ; this heroic voice had its more Italianate counterpart in such roles as Calaf in Puccini's Turandot.

Turandot quickly spread to other venues: Rome ( Teatro Costanzi, April 29, four days after the Milan premiere ), Buenos Aires ( Teatro Colón, June 23 ), Dresden ( September 6, in German ), Venice ( La Fenice, September 9 ), Vienna ( October 14 ; Mafalda Salvatini in the title role ), Berlin ( November 8 ), New York ( Metropolitan Opera, November 16 ), Brussels ( La Monnaie, 17 December, in French ), Naples ( Teatro San Carlo, January 17, 1927 ), Parma ( February 12 ), Turin ( March 17 ), London ( Covent Garden, June 7 ), San Francisco ( September 19 ), Bologna ( October 1927 ), Paris ( March 29, 1928 ), Australia 1928, Moscow ( Bolshoi Theatre, 1931 ).

The singing roles saw Giovanna Casolla, Audrey Stottler, and Sharon Sweet as Princess Turandot ; Sergej Larin and Lando Bartolini as Calàf ; and Barbara Frittoli, Cristina Gallardo Domas, and Barbara Hendricks as Liù.

Toscanini conducted the world premieres of many operas, four of which have become part of the standard operatic repertoire: Pagliacci, La bohème, La fanciulla del West and Turandot ; he took an active role in Alfano's completion of Puccini's Turandot.

They were however much praised by Goethe, Schlegel, Madame de Staël and Sismondi ; one of these pieces, Turandot or Re Turandote, was translated by Friedrich Schiller.

Gheorghiu also performed at the Met as Liù in Turandot in 2000 ; as Violetta in La traviata opposite Jonas Kaufmann in 2006 and 2007 ; as Amelia in Simon Boccanegra in 2007 ; as Mimì in La bohème in 2008 ; as Magda in the 2008 / 09 season in the ROH / SFO production of La rondine, the Met's first performance of the opera since 1936 ; and for the 2009 / 10 season she appeared as Violetta, replacing her previous engagement as Marie Antoinette in a rare revival of John Corigliano's The Ghosts of Versailles which was replaced due to the recession.

In 1983 Prince staged Turandot for the Vienna State Opera ( conductor: Lorin Maazel ; with José Carreras, Éva Marton ).

However, any man who wishes to wed Turandot must first answer her three riddles ; if he fails, he will be beheaded.

In 1965 she made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Mimì, and later appeared there as Liù in Puccini's Turandot and Marguerite in Faust ; her Juliette in Roméo et Juliette ran for 139 performances.

A singer of unusual longevity, Gedda has been active well into his late 70s ; in May 2001 he recorded the role of the Emperor Altoum in Puccini's Turandot and the role of the High Priest in Mozart's Idomeneo in June 2003.

In 1941 he began to take counterpoint lessons with Boris Blacher ; at that time he wrote his first work, Prinzessin Turandot, at the suggestion of Werner Egk.

At the Metropolitan Opera alone, these are the operas she performed but never recorded commercially: Verdi's Ernani, Macbeth, Il trovatore, Don Carlos ( the Celestial Voice as well as Elizabeth, both in Italian ), and Aida ; Wagner's Lohengrin and Der Ring des Nibelungen ( featured roles in all four operas ); Ponchielli's La Gioconda ; Giordano's Andrea Chénier ; and Puccini's Madama Butterfly and Turandot ( as Liù ; she played the title role in Toronto ).