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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 ).
* Puccini ; Turandot ( Liù ), Molinari-Pradelli, EMI, 1967
* Turandot ( Giacomo Puccini ; for Opera Australia )
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 ).

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Though Puccini's first interest in the subject was based on his reading of Friedrich Schiller's adaptation of the play, his work is most nearly based on the earlier text Turandot by Carlo Gozzi.
Turandot is a Persian word and name meaning " the daughter of Turan ", Turan being a region of Central Asia which used to be part of the Persian Empire.
Turandot is a staple of the standard operatic repertoire and it appears as number 15 on the Operabase list of the most-performed operas worldwide.
Up to eight of the themes used in Turandot appear to be based on traditional Chinese music and anthems, and the melody of a Chinese song named " Mò Li Hūa ( 茉莉花 )", or " Jasmine ", is included as a motif for the princess.
Turandotor Turandokht — is a female name in Iran and it means " Turan's Daughter " in Persian.
( It is best known in the West through Puccini's famous opera Turandot ( 1921 – 24 ).
His epitaph is taken from one account of his remarks concluding the 1926 premiere of Puccini's unfinished Turandot: " Qui finisce l ' opera, perché a questo punto il maestro è morto " (" Here the opera ends, because at this point the maestro died ").
In Puccini's last opera, Turandot, Calaf's father Timur is the deposed King of the Tartars.
This is not always true, however – Cavalleria rusticana, Pagliacci, Tosca, and other verismo operas have arias, duets and choruses that are constantly excerpted in recitals, and Turandot ( left incomplete at Puccini's death ) marks a return to a " numbers " style.
She is best known for her performances as Violetta in La traviata, Gilda in Rigoletto, Cio-Cio-San in Madama Butterfly, Mimì ( and occasionally Musetta ) in La bohème, Lucia in Lucia di Lammermoor, Adina in L ' elisir d ' amore, Liù in Turandot, Nedda in Pagliacci, all three leading soprano roles in Puccini's Il trittico, Adriana Lecouvreur, and Francesca in Zandonai's Francesca da Rimini.
#[...] 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.
" 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.
It is sung by Calaf, il principe ignoto ( the unknown prince ), who falls in love at first sight with the beautiful but cold Princess Turandot.
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 text is based on Friedrich Schiller's adaptation of the play Turandot by Carlo
The aria takes place in Scene Two of the Second Act, and is sung mostly by the Princess Turandot ( soprano ), but with a reply from Calaf ( tenor ), which is a key point of the opera.
The climax of the aria occurs with the word " grido " (" outcry " or " crying out ") and clearly Turandot is reliving and personifying the last moments of her ancestor, its outrage and its long awaited vengeance.

Turandot and opera
Turandot, Puccini's final opera, was left unfinished, and the last two scenes were completed by Franco Alfano based on the composer's sketches.
In 1986 Nespolo had the possibility of designing the stage sets for Ferruccio Busoni ’ s opera Turandot at Connecticut Grand Opera, Stamford, the first of several theatre works he made in the following years, such as the sets and costumes for Paisiello's Don Chisciotte at the Teatro dell ' Opera di Roma in 1990 and for Donizetti's L ' elisir d ' amore, a production for the Rome Opera, the Paris Opera and the Opéra de Lausanne, Liège and Metz in 1995.
* August 17 – Margaret Harshaw, Metropolitan Opera soprano, sings the role of Turandot in Puccini's opera Turandot at the New York World's Fair.
He left behind 36 pages of sketches on 23 sheets for the end of Turandot, together with instructions that Riccardo Zandonai should finish the opera.
Puccini's editor Giulio Ricordi decided on Alfano because his opera La leggenda di Sakùntala resembled Turandot in its setting and heavy orchestration.
* At the point where Puccini left off writing the finale of his unfinished opera, Turandot: " Here Death triumphed over art ".
* April 25-Première of Giacomo Puccini's opera Turandot at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan.
Busoni's Turandot Suite ( 1905 ), probably his most popular orchestral work, was expanded into his opera Turandot in 1917, and Busoni completed two other operas, Die Brautwahl ( 1911 ) and Arlecchino ( 1917 ).
At this time Paul Hindemith's Mathis der Maler was performing at the theatre and the following opera to be performed was Puccini's 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.
Best known today for his opera Risurrezione ( 1904 ) and above all for having completed Puccini's opera Turandot in 1926.
Nonetheless, she sang major soprano roles at most major opera houses around the world up until the end of her operatic career in the 1990s — singing Turandot at the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden ( London ) in 1993, for example.
Her other opera roles included the title role in Handel's Acis and Galatea, Liù in Puccini's Turandot, Gilda in Verdi's Rigoletto, Micaela in Bizet's Carmen, Fiordiligi in Mozart's Così fan tutte, and Nannetta in Verdi's Falstaff among others.
* The funeral march for Lìu in the opera Turandot, by Giacomo Puccini.

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