| Turandot | |
|---|---|
| Opera by Giacomo Puccini | |
 The cover of the score printed by Ricordi | |
| Librettist | |
| Language | Italian |
| Based on | Carlo Gozzi's play Turandot |
| Premiere | 25 April 1926 Teatro alla Scala, Milan |
Turandot (Italian: [turanˈdɔt] ;[1][2] 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.[3] 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.
- ^ Bruno Migliorini (ed.). "Turandot". Dizionario italiano multimediale e multilingue d'ortografia e di pronunzia (in Italian). Retrieved 5 August 2019.
- ^ Luciano Canepari. "Turandot". Dizionario di pronuncia italiana online (in Italian). Retrieved 5 August 2019.
- ^ Turandot's Homecoming: Seeking the Authentic Princess of China in a New Contest of Riddles Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine, Master of Music thesis by Ying-Wei Tiffany Sung, Graduate College of Bowling Green State University, August 2010