In which city is the opera Turandot set?
"play may have been prompted by the impending centennial (in 1906) of the playwright's death. Gozzi's ""Turandot"", which first appeared in 1762, is the most well-known of his ten ""fiabe"" (fairy tales) written between 1761 and 1765. The action takes place outside a city gate of Peking and inside the Emperor's palace. Turandot, is a proud, cruel Chinese princess who refuses to marry any suitors unless they can answer three impossible riddles. When they fail, she has them executed. But Calaf, Prince of Astrakhan, manages to woo her (""Turandot or death!""), answers the riddles, and wins her hand in marriage."
"The first performance was held at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan on 25 April 1926 and conducted by Arturo Toscanini. This performance included only Puccini's music and not Alfano's additions. The first performance of the opera as completed by Alfano was the following night, 26 April, although it is disputed whether this was conducted by Toscanini again or by Ettore Panizza. ""Turandot"" is a Persian word and name that means ""the daughter of Turan"", Turan being a region of Central Asia, formerly part of the Persian Empire. The name of the opera is taken from Persian ""Turandokht"" (), with"
"Turandot (Busoni) Turandot 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 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"". Carlo Gozzi's play ""Turandot"" first appeared in 1762. It was originally written to be performed in the small theatre of San"
"Turandot (Gozzi) Turandot (1762) is a ""commedia dell'arte"" play by Count Carlo Gozzi after a supposedly Persian story from the collection ""Les Mille et un jours"" (1710–1712) by François Pétis de la Croix (not to be confused with ""One Thousand and One Nights""). Gozzi's ""Turandot"" was first performed at the Teatro San Samuele, Venice, on 22 January 1762. Gozzi's play has given rise to a number of subsequent artistic endeavours, including combinations of: versions/translations by Schiller, Karl Vollmoeller and Brecht; theatrical productions by Goethe, Max Reinhardt and Yevgeny Vakhtangov; incidental music by Weber, Busoni and Wilhelm Stenhammar; and operas by"
"of the novel takes place in Baden-Baden, a German resort town famous for its waters and gambling houses and a popular gathering spot for the elite of nineteenth century Europe. Turgenev’s description of the town came first-hand, for he had lived for a period in Baden, the novel was written there, and the episodes and characters are undoubtedly drawn from life. Turgenev had come to Baden-Baden to be near Madame Viardot, the opera singer, and his most intimate, lifelong friend. The novel opens in the German bathing resort of Baden-Baden (or simply Baden) in the summer of 1862, where the"
"The opera is set in 15th-century Venice, at the house of Simone Trovai, military commander of the Venetian republic. On the night of the great Carnival, Simone in vain searches his house for his wife Violanta. Ever since her sister Nerina committed suicide (after having been seduced by Alfonso, the Prince of Naples), she has been bent on vengeance. Simone is about to leave for the Carnival with the painter Giovanni Bracca, when Violanta appears. After dismissing Bracca, she reveals to Simone that she has (anonymously) arranged a meeting with Alfonso in their house, where she wants her husband to"
"Turandot Turandot (; ; ) is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini, completed by Franco Alfano, and set to a libretto in Italian by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni. Though Puccini's first interest in the subject was based on his reading of Friedrich Schiller's 1801 adaptation of the play, his work is most nearly based on the earlier text ""Turandot"" (1762) by Count Carlo Gozzi. The original story is based on one of the seven stories in the epic ""Haft Peykar"" (""The Seven Beauties""), a work of 12th-century Persian poet Nizami. Nizami aligned the seven stories with the"
"of Chinese ""Xìqǔ"" (literally, ""theater of song""), often referred to as Chinese Opera. Notes Citations Sources Turandot (Gozzi) Turandot (1762) is a ""commedia dell'arte"" play by Count Carlo Gozzi after a supposedly Persian story from the collection ""Les Mille et un jours"" (1710–1712) by François Pétis de la Croix (not to be confused with ""One Thousand and One Nights""). Gozzi's ""Turandot"" was first performed at the Teatro San Samuele, Venice, on 22 January 1762. Gozzi's play has given rise to a number of subsequent artistic endeavours, including combinations of: versions/translations by Schiller, Karl Vollmoeller and Brecht; theatrical productions by Goethe,"
"performed by Bampton Classical Opera in English translation in July of that year, followed by performances in London's Wigmore Hall in September. The opera received its US premiere in New Brunswick, New Jersey at the Rutgers University Nicholas Music Center on 30 October 2009. The story is set in Taranto and concerns the Prince of Sorrento's search for Prince Casimiro's rightful heir who had been taken to Taranto as a baby after her father's murder. Two young fisherwomen in the village, Lesbina and Nerina, each believe they might be the missing princess. Although they are engaged to each other's brother"
"company but also great opulence and excellent taste in the design of costumes and scenery and, furthermore, a first rate orchestra. Gozzi is the author of fairy tales which mamma's grandmother used to tell her. ""L'amore delle tre melarance"" [""The Love of Three Oranges""], ""L'augellin Belverde"" [""The Green Bird""] and others were greatly in vogue in rococo times, but then they vanished without trace. I have chosen the tale of the cruel, seductive Chinese princess (or Persian, who knows) Turandot, who demands of her suitors the solutions of three riddles, at the risk of their losing their heads if they"
"in his biography of Toscanini, Harvey Sachs claims that Toscanini did conduct the second and third performances before withdrawing from the production due to nervous exhaustion. A contemporary review of the second performance states that Toscanini was the conductor, taking five curtain calls at the end of the performance. ""Turandot"" quickly spread to other venues: Rome (Teatro Costanzi, 29 April, four days after the Milan premiere), Buenos Aires (Teatro Colón, 23 June), Dresden (4 July, in German, with Anne Roselle as Turandot, and Richard Tauber as Calaf, conducted by Fritz Busch), Venice (La Fenice, 9 September), Vienna (14 October; Mafalda"
"seven days of the week, the seven colors and the seven corresponding planets. This particular story is the story of Tuesday, being told to King Bahram by his companion of the red dome, associated with Mars. In the very first line of this story, the protagonist is identified as a Russian princess. The name of the opera is based on Turan-Dokht (daughter of Turan), which is a common name used in Persian poetry for Central Asian princesses. The opera's version of the story is set in China and involves Prince Calaf, who falls in love with the cold Princess Turandot."
"Salvatini in the title role), Berlin (8 November), New York (Metropolitan Opera, 16 November), Brussels (La Monnaie, 17 December, in French), Naples (Teatro San Carlo, 17 January 1927), Parma (12 February), Turin (17 March), London (Covent Garden, 7 June), San Francisco (19 September), Bologna (October 1927), Paris (29 March 1928), Australia 1928, Moscow (Bolshoi Theatre, 1931). ""Turandot"" is a staple of the standard operatic repertoire and it appears as number 17 on the Operabase list of the most-performed operas worldwide. For many years, the government of the People's Republic of China forbade performance of ""Turandot"" because they said it portrayed"
"Frankfurt where she was heard again and again from 1982-87 in leading roles. She has performed at the State Operas of Hamburg and Munich (1983, 1985), at the Opera of Marseilles (1985), at the Teatro San Carlos Lisbon (including 1986 as Leonore in Beethoven's ""Fidelio""), at the Liceu in Barcelona (1987 in the title roles the opera ""Aida"" by Verdi and ""Beatrice di Tenda 'by Bellini). In Italy at the festivals of Verona in 1980 and 1988 she toured in the title role of the opera ""La Gioconda"" by Ponchielli, 1983 and 1988 as Turandot in 1984 as Aida. The"
"Alessandra Marc Alessandra Marc (born July 29, 1957) is an American dramatic soprano who has appeared at many of the world's opera houses and orchestras. Marc is particularly known for her interpretations of the works of Richard Strauss, Richard Wagner, Giuseppe Verdi, music of the Second Viennese School, and the title role in Puccini's ""Turandot"". Alessandra Marc was born with the name Judith Borden in Berlin, Germany to a German mother and a Polish-born father who worked for the United States Army Intelligence. Marc spent much of her childhood traveling around the world as an ""army brat"". Her parents ultimately"
"Alessandra Marc Alessandra Marc (born July 29, 1957) is an American dramatic soprano who has appeared at many of the world's opera houses and orchestras. Marc is particularly known for her interpretations of the works of Richard Strauss, Richard Wagner, Giuseppe Verdi, music of the Second Viennese School, and the title role in Puccini's ""Turandot"". Alessandra Marc was born with the name Judith Borden in Berlin, Germany to a German mother and a Polish-born father who worked for the United States Army Intelligence. Marc spent much of her childhood traveling around the world as an ""army brat"". Her parents ultimately"
"production of the opera in 2018 . Among other performances, the opera received a production at the Rossini in Wildbad festival in 2013 . The Nubian King Agorante, who is infatuated with Zoraide, has defeated her father, Ircano and captured her. Ricciardo, a Christian knight and Zoraide's lover, accompanies an emissary to plead for her release. Agorante's jealous wife, Zomira, arranges the capture of Ricciardo as well and plots to have the young lovers executed to protect her position as Queen. The opera ends with an army of Christian knights rescuing Ricciardo and Zoraide. Ricciardo spares Agorante's life. Notes Sources"
"In questa reggia ""In questa reggia"" (""In this palace"") is an aria from Giacomo Puccini's opera ""Turandot"" set to a libretto in Italian by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni. The text is based on Friedrich Schiller's adaptation of the play ""Turandot"" by Carlo Gozzi. The aria takes place in scene two of the second act, and is sung mostly by the Princess Turandot (soprano), but with a reply from Calaf (tenor), which is a key point of the opera. In the aria, Turandot explains that she conceived the three riddles as a test for any prince who might want to"
"Because ""Arlecchino"" was too short in duration for a full evening's entertainment, Busoni composed his two-act opera ""Turandot"" to serve as an accompanying work. Orchestra: 2 flutes (both doubling piccolo), 2 oboes (2nd doubling English horn), 2 clarinets (2nd doubling bass clarinet in C), 2 bassoons (2nd doubling contrabassoon); 3 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones; timpani, 3 percussion (glockenspiel, triangle, tambourine, military drum, bass drum, cymbals, tam-tam, celesta); strings (8 violins I, 8 violins II, 6 violas, 6 cellos, 6 double basses). Stage music: 2 trumpets, timpani. The opera, which is in one act, consists of a prologue and four"
"Nessun dorma """" (; English: ""None shall sleep"") is an aria from the final act of Giacomo Puccini's opera ""Turandot"" and one of the best-known tenor arias in all opera. It is sung by Calaf, (the unknown prince), who falls in love at first sight with the beautiful but cold Princess Turandot. However, any man who wishes to wed Turandot must first answer her three riddles; if he fails, he will be beheaded. In the aria, Calaf expresses his triumphant assurance that he will win the princess. Although ""Nessun dorma"" has long been a staple of operatic recitals, Luciano Pavarotti"
"Busoni, Puccini and Havergal Brian. Turandot was deliberately written in the Commedia del'arte style by Gozzi, as part of a campaign in his literary war against the bourgeois, realistic works of Pietro Chiari and Carlo Goldoni. Gozzi was intimate with the out-of work theatre troupe of Antonio Sacchi, an inveterate ""commedia"" Truffaldino. It was first performed by Sacchi's troupe at the Teatro San Samuele in Venice on 22 January 1762, and received seven subsequent performances. The choice of theatre itself was a pointed attack on Goldoni, since he had been the theatre's director between 1737–1741. In the end, Gozzi won"
"Turandot opera. I am re-writing the text completely and independently, and bringing it closer in tone to a pantomime or stage play. It is a more arduous task than I had initially assumed, but it is coming easily to me. The ""masque""-figures common to both pieces serve to link them (although they otherwise contrast completely with each other). Busoni completed the opera ""Turandot"" in double-quick time (300 pages in 100 days) in late 1916, and it was first performed with ""Arlecchino"" as a double bill - Busoni conducting - in Zurich in 1917. Dent mentions how pleased Busoni was with"
"Galina Savova Galina Savova () (born 1945) is a Bulgarian operatic soprano. The singer completed her education first in Varna, in Sofia and then began her career in 1966 with a beginner's engagement at the National Opera House of the Bulgarian capital. She sang there already lots from the Slavic and the Italian operatic repertoire, as it was set in 1971 at a guest performance of the Opera of Sofia at the Paris Grand Opera in the title role of Puccini's ""Turandot"". In 1972 Savova first sang in West Germany, in Darmstadt. She remained close to the Opera House of"
"with seven of her works, and Albany Records released a CD with ten of her works in 2009. Janet Maguire Janet Maguire (born 1927 in Chicago) is an American composer residing in Venice, Italy. She is known particularly for her arrangement of the finale of Giacomo Puccini's ""Turandot"", in which she exclusively used the sketches Puccini left for it at his death. Maguire is also known for her dramatic contemporary opera in three acts, ""Hérésie"", and has worked in a wide variety of musical expressions throughout some fifty orchestral, chamber, solo, vocal, choral and stage works. Born in Chicago and"
"his own workmanship. There are various oddities in Busoni's libretto which recall the play's ""Commedia dell'arte"" roots: characters with Italian names like Truffaldino and Pantalone; Allah is praised in China; and there are references to Venice, St. Mark's, and gondolas. The spoken dialogue harks back to Mozart's operas, especially ""The Magic Flute"". In comparison to Puccini's opera on the same subject, Busoni retains the intimate, unreal atmosphere of Gozzi's play. Busoni's princess Turandot is not quite so implacable; her heart is readier to melt. Re-using some of the material he had composed for the opera, Busoni again revised the orchestral"
"New York Philharmonic, and again in November–December 1994, with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, along with soloists Itzhak Perlman and Gil Shaham. In 1997 and 1998, Mehta worked in collaboration with Chinese film director Zhang Yimou on a production of the opera ""Turandot"" by Giacomo Puccini which they took to Florence, Italy, and then to Beijing, China, where it was staged in its actual surroundings in the Forbidden City, with over 300 extras and 300 soldiers, for nine historic performances. The making of this production was chronicled in a documentary called ""The Turandot Project"" which Mehta narrated. On 26 December 2005,"
"Alexandria Symphony Orchestra. Marc returned to the New York stage in the 2009-2010 season, in concert at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall on February 6, 2010. In addition, Marc has sung her signature role, Turandot, at Opéra Bastille in Paris, the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, the Washington National Opera, and the Metropolitan Opera, among others. Alessandra Marc has been married twice, first to Remy David (the son of her mentor, Marilyn Cotlow) and then to former stockbroker Bart Brakel. Marc and Brakel have one daughter together, Olivia, and they live in Chantilly, Virginia. the title role of Puccini's ""Turandot""."
"not indicated how he wanted it to sound. Ricordi's real concern was not the quality of Alfano's work, but that he wanted the end of ""Turandot"" to sound as if it had been written by Puccini, and Alfano's editing had to be seamless. Of this version, about three minutes were cut for performance by Toscanini, and it is this shortened version that is usually performed. The premiere of ""Turandot"" was at La Scala, Milan, on Sunday 25 April 1926, one year and five months after Puccini's death. Rosa Raisa held the title role. Tenors Miguel Fleta and Franco Lo Giudice"
"Garden Opera in London and the Australian Opera House in Sydney. She sang Turandot again in 1992 at the Lyric Opera of Chicago and at the opera house in Limoges. Apart from the aforementioned roles, she has also portrayed the title character in Puccini's ""Manon Lescaut"", Minnie in ""La Fanciulla del West"", Senta in ""The Flying Dutchman"", Eva in ""Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg"", and Ortrud in ""Lohengrin"". Galina Savova Galina Savova () (born 1945) is a Bulgarian operatic soprano. The singer completed her education first in Varna, in Sofia and then began her career in 1966 with a beginner's engagement"
"in spring 2007 as joint lead in ""Turandot"" and again in ""Fidelio"". In the event she first sang ""Turandot"" there a few weeks in advance of her first scheduled appearance, stepping in for Andrea Gruber. In Europe, Sunnegårdh sang ""Turandot"" at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin in January–March 2012, and has performed several times in the title roles in Puccini's ""Tosca"", including as a replacement at the Royal Swedish Opera, and Richard Strauss' ""Salome"", as Lady Macbeth, including at Glyndebourne, and at the Malmö Opera in the title role in Janáček's ""Jenůfa"". She made her singing debut in her hometown"
"decent, in my position, to slate a young composer [Niedermeyer] who has for a long time been in the same situation vis-à-vis the theatre as I am. But I must warn you not to believe a word I say."" The opera was revised to suit Gilbert Duprez when he took over the title role from Nourrit in 1837, and successfully revived in a three-act form in 1840. It is now almost totally forgotten. The opera takes place in Venice and Rome, about 1660. In Act I, in Venice, Stradella shields Léonor who is pursued by the Duke of Pesaro. They"
"in the lives of Adalbert of Italy, his mother Willa of Tuscany (called ""Gismonda"" in the opera), Otto II, and the Byzantine Princess Theophanu, who became the wife of Otto II in a state marriage intended to form an alliance between the Byzantine and Holy Roman empires. The German-born Handel, after spending some of his early career composing operas and other pieces in Italy, settled in London, where in 1711 he had brought Italian opera for the first time with his opera ""Rinaldo"". A tremendous success, ""Rinaldo"" created a craze in London for Italian opera seria, a form focused overwhelmingly"
"It was also performed at the Wexford Festival Opera in December 2002 under Paolo Arrivabeni. The Washington Concert Opera in the US capital presented a concert version in May 2009 with Antony Walker conducting. Setting: Syracuse<br> Time: 14th century Bianca has been married against her will to Count Manfredo, although she is secretly in love with an unknown knight. Elaisa, a young woman in search of the daughter of her benefactor, and Viscardo arrive in the city. The disgraced courtier Brunoro discovers that Viscardo is the knight loved by Bianca. He tells Elaisa in order to make her jealous but"