Published on Jun 16, 2014

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Genre: NCPA

Dates: July 5-6, 2014

Venue: Opera House of NCPA

Prices: 100, 200, 300

Features: From July 5th-6th during the NCPA Opera Festival 2014, the China National Opera House will be presents the Italian's composer Puccini's classic work Turandot at Opera House of NCPA in Beijing.

BRIEF INTRODUCTION

The three-act opera Turandot is one of Italian's composer Puccini's great pieces, and it was his last opera. Premiered in La Scala (Milan) on April 25, 1926, Turandot was brought to China by China National Opera House (CNOH) in 1989. In April 1990, the concert version was debuted in Beijing. Turandot has been listed into the repertoire of CNOH since then. At the end of September 2012, CNOH's production of Turandot was toured in Rome, Italy, homeland of the opera.

SYNOPSIS
Turandot depicts a love story of mystery. Turandot, though she is a most beautiful Chinese Princess, is coldhearted, and she stipulates that any prince seeking to marry her must answer three riddles - and if he fails, he will be sentenced to death. Three poor princes have unfortunately lost their lives. Calaf, the prince of Tartary who is in exile in China, smitten with the princess's beauty, determines to win her as his bride and answers all the questions correctly. However, Princess Turandot refuses to accept defeat. Calaf generously offers Turandot a riddle of his own: if she can learn his name by dawn, he will forfeit his life. Princess Turandot captures the father of the prince and his maid Liù and extorts a confession from them by torture. Liù kills herself to keep the secret. Liù's death gives coldhearted Turandot a great shock. At dawn, Turandot still has no idea of the prince's name. Calaf makes Turandot forced to kiss him and melts her icy heart and finally tells her his real name. Yet Princess Turandot does not announce the prince's real name, on the contrary, she announces to the public that she will marry the prince and his name is Love.

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