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Upon being tortured, she commits suicide with a soldier’s dagger.

Liù indicates that she alone knows the stranger’s identity but will never reveal it. Calàf is certain of his victory and sings the aria, “Nessun dorma!” Ping, Pang and Pong again try to bribe Calàf to defer. Turandot has announced that no one will sleep until someone gives her the stranger’s name. Hoping to win her love, Calàf offers Turandot a challenge of his own - if she can learn his name by dawn, he will forfeit his life.Īct III is held in the impressive Temple gardens. Shaken, Turandot delivers the third riddle: What is like ice but burns? Calàf, after hesitation, triumphantly cries out, “Turandot!” The crowd erupts with expressions of joy. Turandot continues: What flickers and is warm like a flame, yet is not a flame? After a brief thought, “Blood,” Calàf correctly answers. Facing Calàf, she poses her first question: What is born each night and dies each dawn? “Hope,” Calàf correctly responds. The people next gather to hear Turandot’s question for the new challenger. Ping, Pang and Pong lament Turandot’s bloody reign. Nonetheless, Calàf forces his way to strike the gong signaling himself to be the next candidate to answer Turandot’s riddles, only to be discouraged by her three ministers, Ping, Pang and Pong, who appear to discourage him as Act I ends.Īct II takes place inside the palace. The crowd calls on the princess to spare him, which she refuses. The most recent suitor, the Prince of Persia, is seen being led to execution. We are introduced to a girl, Liù, along with her father, past king Timur, who unknowingly is the father of Calàf, who has become enthralled with Turandot’s beauty. A mandarin announces to an assembled crowd that any male candidate seeking to marry the princess, Turandot, must answer three riddles she poses. Of interest, Puccini died a sudden death before the last scene was composed, a task left to the then composer, Franco Alfano.Īct 1 of this ancient Chinese fairy tale begins outside the Imperial Palace in Peking.

This opera production has been credited with an astounding and innovative use of chorus and orchestra, typical of Puccini. Puccini’s final opera is an epic fairy tale set in a China of legend, loosely based on a play by 18th-century Italian dramatist Carlo Gozzi. The Metropolitan premier of “Turandot” was in 1926. The opening curtain is scheduled for 11 a.m. The Metropolitan Opera High Definition broadcast of Puccini’s opera, “Turandot,” will be held at the Colorado Mountain College in Breckenridge Saturday, Jan. Where: Colorado Mountain College, Finkel Auditorium, 107 Denison Placer Road, BreckenridgeĬost: Tickets: Student $10 / Senior (65+) $16 / Adult $20