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 ).

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.

There were, however, many other veristi: Franco Alfano, best known however for completing Puccini's Turandot, Alfredo Catalani, Gustave Charpentier ( Louise ), Eugen d ' Albert ( Tiefland ), Ignatz Waghalter ( Der Teufelsweg and Jugend ), Alberto Franchetti, Franco Leoni, Jules Massenet ( La Navarraise ), Licinio Refice, Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, ( I gioielli della Madonna ), and Riccardo Zandonai.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

* Turandot, libretto by Renato Simoni and Giuseppe Adami ( incomplete at the time of Puccini's death, completed by Franco Alfano: premiered at La Scala, 25 April 1926

The premiere of Turandot was at La Scala, Milan, on Sunday 25 April 1926, one year and five months after Puccini's death, with Rosa Raisa in the title role.

* Turandot by Puccini – Milan, April 25, 1926

# He should not be judged as a composer on the basis of the task he was given in completing Turandot ( La Scala, 25 April 1926 )

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.

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.

Her voice was known for its power and extension used in operatic roles such as Turandot in a career spanning four decades.

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 ).

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

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 ").

#[...] 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.

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.

The story of Turandot was taken from a Persian collection of stories called The Book of One Thousand and One Days ( 1722 French translation Les Mille et un jours by François Pétis de la Croix — not to be confused with its sister work The Book of One Thousand and One Nights ), where the character of " Turandokht " as a cold princess was found.

* 1954 Das Märchen von Prinzessin Turandot ( The Fairy Tale of Princess Turandot ), a radio play

* Tui ( intellectual ), a neologism coined by Bertolt Brecht to describe a type of intellectual, as depicted in his play Turandot

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.

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.

On the 22nd and 23 September 2008 a concert was performed in Tokyo at the same venue as where Turandot was performed.

:" Fifty years later, the popular Italian playwright Carlo Gozzi made her story into a drama of a “ tigerish woman ” of “ unrelenting pride .” In a combined effort by two of the greatest literary talents of the era, Friedrich von Schiller translated the play into German as Turandot, Prinzessin von China, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe directed it on the stage in Weimar in 1802.

Unlike La Fanciulla, Turandot contains a number of memorable stand-alone arias, among them Nessun dorma.

Puccini's editor Giulio Ricordi decided on Alfano because his opera La leggenda di Sakùntala resembled Turandot in its setting and heavy orchestration.

He has over the years created several productions for the Metropolitan Opera in New York, including La bohème, Tosca, and Turandot.

The operas in the company's first provincial tour included Die Meistersinger, Lohengrin, La bohème, Madama Butterfly, The Barber of Seville, Tosca, Falstaff, Faust, Cavalleria rusticana, Pagliacci, Il trovatore, and the first performances in English of Turandot.

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.

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.

Scotto's director credits include: Madama Butterfly ( Metropolitan Opera, Arena di Verona, Florida Grand Opera, Palm Beach Opera ); Bellini's Il pirata ( Festival Belliniano, Catania, 1993 ) and La sonnambula ( Catania, 1994 ); an Emmy Award-winning telecast of La traviata ( New York City Opera, 1995 ); Norma ( Finnish National Opera ); Adriana Lecouvreur ( Santiago, 2002 ); Lucia di Lammermoor ( Music Hall of Thessaloniki, 2004 ); La Wally ( Dallas, Bern ); La Bohème ( Lyric Opera of Chicago, 2007 and Palm Beach Opera, 2009 ); Turandot ( Athens, 2009 ); La sonnambula ( Miami and Michigan Opera Theatre, 2008 ), and Un ballo in maschera, ( Lyric Opera of Chicago, 2010 ).

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.

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

Another Puccini role, the ice princess Turandot, was a part with which Yeend became particularly associated, portraying the part with the San Antonio Opera, Cincinnati Opera, New Orleans Opera, San Francisco Opera, Philadelphia Lyric Opera Company ( 1958 ), Vienna State Opera ( 1958 ) and at the Arena di Verona Festival ( 1958 ).

* October 22 – Reopening of the Royal Opera House, London, with a production of Puccini's Turandot, conducted by Sir John Barbirolli and with Gertrude Grob-Prandl in the title role.

The rebuilt, improved and expanded theater opened on October 7, 1999, with Puccini's Turandot as previewed in 1994 before the fire.

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

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.

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.

* 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.

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.