Turandot (Busoni)

Turandot
Opera by Ferruccio Busoni
Poster for the premiere
LibrettistFerruccio Busoni
LanguageGerman
Based onCarlo Gozzi's play Turandot
Premiere
11 May 1917 (1917-05-11)

Turandot (BV 273) is a 1917 opera with spoken dialogue and in two acts by Ferruccio Busoni. Busoni prepared his own libretto, in German, based on the play of the same name by Count Carlo Gozzi. The music for Busoni's opera is based on the incidental music, and the associated Turandot Suite (BV 248), which Busoni had written in 1905 for a production of Gozzi's play. The opera is often performed as part of a double bill with Busoni's earlier one-act opera Arlecchino.