 | Dame Kiri Te Kanawa as Tosca - Act I - Opera de Paris, 1982 Dame Kiri Te Kanawa as "Floria Tosca" in the middle part of act I of the opera "Tosca" by Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924). With Ingvar Wixell / baritone, Chor & Orchester Theatre National Opera de Paris, Seiji Ozawa / conductor, 1982. Stage designer: Jean-Claude Auvray Director: Dirk Sanders |
 | Puccini: La Boheme, Act II "Quando me n'vò" Culture Studies: Classical Music: Puccini (A series of well-known classical music pieces one should known about.) Puccini, Giacomo (1858-1924) Style/Period: Late Italian Romantic (verismo; Impressionist); Italian Puccini La Boheme, Act II "Quando me n'vò" |
 | "E Lucevan le stelle" Giacomo Puccini "Tosca 3rd ACT" "E lucevan le stelle" is the romanza of Mario Cavaradossi in the 3rd act of Tosca, the opera composed by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It is sung by Tosca's lover, the painter Mario Cavaradossi (tenor), while waiting for his coming execution. Written in B minor, is one of the most famous opera arias. The aria is introduced by a somber clarinet solo. The incipit of the melody (heard in outline earlier in the Act, as the sky lightens and the gaoler prepares for the execution) is repeated on the lines "O dolci baci, o languide carezze", and also restated forte in the closing bars of the opera, as Tosca jumps from the ramparts E LUCEVAN LE STELLE LYRICS E lucevan le stelle, ed olezzava la terra stridea l'uscio dell'orto e un passo sfiorava la rena. Entrava ella fragrante, mi cadea fra la braccia. O dolci baci, o languide carezze, mentr'io fremente le belle forme disciogliea dai veli! Svanì per sempre il sogno mio d'amore. L'ora è fuggita, e muoio disperato! e muoio disperato! E non ho amato mai tanto la vita! tanto la vita! E lucevan le Stelle from TOSCA Explained by Tito Schipa jr. In a very magic "serata of Ferragosto" and perfect location the "Anfiteatro Romano" at Lecce, Tito Schipa jr. explained "Tosca" as MELODRAMA exactly and how Giacomo Puccini has created this opera. Tito Schipa jr and his "Tosca Masterclass" is a great job of research to explain the original Tosca. For more info visit: www.titoschipa.it TOSCA (GIACOMO PUCCINI)is the very most dramatic operas and a staple of the standard operatic repertoire in the world. TOSCA is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, based on Victorien Sardou's drama, La Tosca. The work premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on January 14, 1900 TOSCA appears as number 8 on Opera America's list of the 20 most-performed operas in North America for more info about Italy visit: http://www.italianbusinessguide.com/ GIACOMO PUCCINI INFORMATION Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (December 22, 1858 -- November 29, 1924) was an Italian composer whose operas, including La Bohème, Tosca, and Madama Butterfly, are among the most frequently performed in the standard repertoire. Some of his arias, such as "O Mio Babbino Caro" from Gianni Schicchi, "Che gelida manina" from La Bohème, and "Nessun Dorma" from Turandot, have become part of popular culture GIACOMO PUCCINI MAIN OPERAS - Le Villi, libretto by Ferdinando Fontana (in one act -- premiered at the Teatro Dal Verme, 31 May 1884) - Edgar, libretto by Ferdinando Fontana (in four acts -- premiered at the Teatro alla Scala, 21 April 1889) - Manon Lescaut, libretto by Luigi Illica, Marco Praga and Domenico Oliva (premiered at the Teatro Regio, 1 February 1893) - La bohème, libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa (premiered at the Teatro Regio, 1 February 1896) - Tosca, libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa (premiered at the Teatro Costanzi, 14 January 1900) - Madama Butterfly, libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa (in two acts -- premiered at the Teatro alla Scala, 17 February 1904) - La fanciulla del West, libretto by Guelfo Civinini and Carlo Zangarini (premiered at the Metropolitan, 10 December 1910) - La rondine, libretto by Giuseppe Adami (premiered at the Opéra of Monte Carlo, 27 March 1917) - Il trittico (premiered at the Metropolitan, 14 December 1918) . Il tabarro, libretto by Giuseppe Adami . Suor Angelica, libretto by Giovacchino Forzano . Gianni Schicchi, libretto by Giovacchino Forzano - Turandot, libretto by Renato Simoni and Giuseppe Adami (incomplete at the time of Puccini's death, completed by Franco Alfano: premiered at the Teatro alla Scala, 25 April 1926; an alternative completion was commissioned from Luciano Berio in 2002) |
 | TOSCA by "Giacomo Puccini" Overture and First act TOSCA Explained by Tito Schipa jr. In a very magic "serata of Ferragosto" and perfect location the "Anfiteatro Romano" at Lecce, Tito Schipa jr. explained "Tosca" as MELODRAMA exactly and how Giacomo Puccini has created this opera. Tito Schipa jr and his "Tosca Masterclass" is a great job of research to explain the original Tosca. For more info visit: www.titoschipa.it TOSCA (GIACOMO PUCCINI)is the very most dramatic operas and a staple of the standard operatic repertoire in the world. TOSCA is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, based on Victorien Sardou's drama, La Tosca. The work premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on January 14, 1900 FIRST ACT Rome, June 1800 (The church of Sant'Andrea della Valle) Angelotti, an escaped political offender, seeks refuge in the church of Sant'Andrea della Valle where his family has a chapel. His sister, the Marchesa Attavanti, while praying for his release, has unwittingly served as a model to the painter, Mario Cavaradossi for his portrait of the Magdalen. A few minutes before a sacristan enters (followed shortly by Cavaradossi), Angelotti conceals himself in his family's chapel. The sacristan assists the painter, washing his brushes. When Cavaradossi stops his work for a moment, he takes out a medallion from his pocket: this medallion contains a miniature portrait of Tosca, his lover. He makes a comparison between Tosca and the model he was portraying (Recondita armonia -- "Concealed harmony"... TOSCA appears as number 8 on Opera America's list of the 20 most-performed operas in North America for more info about Italy visit: http://www.italianbusinessguide.com/ GIACOMO PUCCINI Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (December 22, 1858 -- November 29, 1924) was an Italian composer whose operas, including La Bohème, Tosca, and Madama Butterfly, are among the most frequently performed in the standard repertoire. Some of his arias, such as "O Mio Babbino Caro" from Gianni Schicchi, "Che gelida manina" from La Bohème, and "Nessun Dorma" from Turandot, have become part of popular culture |
 | Marco Moncloa and Manuel De Diego - El Juramento Spanish bariton Marco Moncloa and Spanish tenor Manuel De Diego sing the duo "O el mundo se menea" (a "drunken" brindisi scene) from act 3 of Joaquín Gaztambide's 1858 zarzuela "EL JURAMENTO". 2000 |
 | Wesendonck Lieder Nr. 5, Träume. Jessye Norman. Richard Wagner Mathilde Wesendonck (23 December 1828 - 31 August 1902) was a minor German poet, who is best known as the friend and possibly mistress of Richard Wagner, who set five songs to her words, the Wesendonck Lieder. She was born Agnes Mathilde Luckemeyer in Elberfeld in 1828. She married the silk merchant Otto Wesendonck (sometimes seen as von Wesendonk). Otto was a great admirer of Wagner's music, and after he and Mathilde met the composer in Zurich in 1852, he placed a cottage on his estate at Wagner's disposal. By 1857, Wagner had become infatuated with Mathilde. It is not known whether she returned his affections to the same degree, or if the affair -- such as it was - was ever consummated. Nevertheless, the affair inspired Wagner to put aside his work on Der Ring des Nibelungen (which would not be resumed for the next twelve years) and begin work on Tristan und Isolde. In 1858, Wagner's wife Minna intercepted a letter from Wagner to Mathilde. After the resulting confrontation, Wagner left Zürich alone, for Venice. Mathilde Wesendonck died in 1902 in Traunblick am Traunsee. She was portrayed by Valentina Cortese in the 1955 film Magic Fire. Her legacy as lover of Richard Wagner lives on with reference to her in Rhett Miller's song Our Love from the album The Instigator Works • Alte und neue Kinderlieder (1890) • Deutsches Kinderbuch in Wort und Bild (1869) • Edith oder die Schlacht bei Hastings (1872) • Friedrich der Große. Dramatische Bilder (1871) • Gedichte, Volksweisen, Legenden und Sagen (1874) • Genoveva (1866) • Gudrun. Schauspiel (1868) • Naturmythen (1865) The Wesendonck Lieder is a song-cycle composed by Richard Wagner while he was working on Die Walküre. This, and the Siegfried Idyll, are his only two non-operatic works that are still regularly performed. The cycle is a setting of poems by Mathilde Wesendonck, the wife of one of Wagner's patrons. Wagner had become acquainted with Otto Wesendonck in Zürich, where he had fled on his escape from Saxony after the May Uprising in Dresden in 1849. For a time Wagner and his wife Minna lived together in the Asyl (German for Asylum), a small cottage on the Wesendonck estate. It is sometimes claimed that Wagner and Mathilde had a love affair; in any case, the situation and mutual infatuation certainly contributed to the intensity of the first act of Die Walküre which Wagner was working on at the time, and the conceiving of a work based on the Tristan and Isolde stories; there is certainly an influence on Mathilde's poems as well. The poems themselves are in a wistful, pathos-laden style influenced by Wilhelm Müller, the author of the poems used by Schubert earlier in the century. But the language is more rarefied and intense as the Romantic style had developed. Wagner himself called two of the songs in the cycle "studies" for Tristan und Isolde, using for the first time musical ideas that are later developed in the opera. In Träume can be heard the roots of the love duet in Act 2, while Im Treibhaus (the last of the five to be composed) uses music later developed extensively for the Prelude to Act 3. The chromatic-harmonic style of Tristan pervades all five songs and pulls the cycle together. Wagner initially wrote the songs for female voice and piano alone, but produced a fully orchestrated version of Träume, to be performed by chamber orchestra under Mathilde's window on the occasion of her birthday, 23 December 1857. The cycle as a whole was first performed in public near Mainz on July 30, 1862 under the title Five Songs for a Female Voice. Träume is sometimes sung by a male voice, as for instance in a pre-War HMV recording by Lauritz Melchior. The orchestration of the whole cycle was completed for large orchestra by Felix Mottl, the Wagner conductor. In 1976, the German composer Hans Werner Henze produced a chamber version for the whole cycle. Each of the players has a separate part, with some very striking wind registration. Der Engel (The Angel), composed November 1857. Stehe still! (Stand still!), composed February 1858. Im Treibhaus - Studie zu Tristan und Isolde (In the Greenhouse), composed May 1858. Schmerzen (Sorrows), composed December 1857. Träume - Studie zu Tristan und Isolde (Dreams), composed December 1857. |
 | "E Lucevan le stelle" by TITO SCHIPA - Giacomo Puccini Tosca TITO SCHIPA singing "E Lucevan le Stelle" following the GIACOMO PUCCINI's opera creation and music. Only Enrico Caruso has used this very way to sing E lucevan le Stella during the 3rd act of Tosca "E lucevan le stelle" is the romanza of Mario Cavaradossi in the 3rd act of Tosca, the opera composed by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It is sung by Tosca's lover, the painter Mario Cavaradossi (tenor), while waiting for his coming execution. Written in B minor, is one of the most famous opera arias. The aria is introduced by a somber clarinet solo. The incipit of the melody (heard in outline earlier in the Act, as the sky lightens and the gaoler prepares for the execution) is repeated on the lines "O dolci baci, o languide carezze", and also restated forte in the closing bars of the opera, as Tosca jumps from the ramparts E LUCEVAN LE STELLE LYRICS E lucevan le stelle, ed olezzava la terra stridea l'uscio dell'orto e un passo sfiorava la rena. Entrava ella fragrante, mi cadea fra la braccia. O dolci baci, o languide carezze, mentr'io fremente le belle forme disciogliea dai veli! Svanì per sempre il sogno mio d'amore. L'ora è fuggita, e muoio disperato! e muoio disperato! E non ho amato mai tanto la vita! tanto la vita! E lucevan le Stelle from TOSCA Explained by Tito Schipa jr. In a very magic "serata of Ferragosto" and perfect location the "Anfiteatro Romano" at Lecce, Tito Schipa jr. explained "Tosca" as MELODRAMA exactly and how Giacomo Puccini has created this opera. Tito Schipa jr and his "Tosca Masterclass" is a great job of research to explain the original Tosca. For more info visit: www.titoschipa.it TOSCA (GIACOMO PUCCINI)is the very most dramatic operas and a staple of the standard operatic repertoire in the world. TOSCA is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, based on Victorien Sardou's drama, La Tosca. The work premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on January 14, 1900 TOSCA appears as number 8 on Opera America's list of the 20 most-performed operas in North America for more info about Italy visit: http://www.italianbusinessguide.com/ GIACOMO PUCCINI INFORMATION Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (December 22, 1858 -- November 29, 1924) was an Italian composer whose operas, including La Bohème, Tosca, and Madama Butterfly, are among the most frequently performed in the standard repertoire. Some of his arias, such as "O Mio Babbino Caro" from Gianni Schicchi, "Che gelida manina" from La Bohème, and "Nessun Dorma" from Turandot, have become part of popular culture GIACOMO PUCCINI MAIN OPERAS - Le Villi, libretto by Ferdinando Fontana (in one act -- premiered at the Teatro Dal Verme, 31 May 1884) - Edgar, libretto by Ferdinando Fontana (in four acts -- premiered at the Teatro alla Scala, 21 April 1889) - Manon Lescaut, libretto by Luigi Illica, Marco Praga and Domenico Oliva (premiered at the Teatro Regio, 1 February 1893) - La bohème, libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa (premiered at the Teatro Regio, 1 February 1896) - Tosca, libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa (premiered at the Teatro Costanzi, 14 January 1900) - Madama Butterfly, libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa (in two acts -- premiered at the Teatro alla Scala, 17 February 1904) - La fanciulla del West, libretto by Guelfo Civinini and Carlo Zangarini (premiered at the Metropolitan, 10 December 1910) - La rondine, libretto by Giuseppe Adami (premiered at the Opéra of Monte Carlo, 27 March 1917) - Il trittico (premiered at the Metropolitan, 14 December 1918) . Il tabarro, libretto by Giuseppe Adami . Suor Angelica, libretto by Giovacchino Forzano . Gianni Schicchi, libretto by Giovacchino Forzano - Turandot, libretto by Renato Simoni and Giuseppe Adami (incomplete at the time of Puccini's death, completed by Franco Alfano: premiered at the Teatro alla Scala, 25 April 1926; an alternative completion was commissioned from Luciano Berio in 2002) |
 | LA BOHEME Puccini "Mi Chiamano Mimì" Soprano Lorella Tafuro From La La Bohème of Puccini, LORELLA TAFURO performances the first act song: "Mi Chiamano Mimì" with the young Tenor ANTONIO CORIANO (Rodolfo), Soprano LORELLA TAFURO (Mimì), Maestro Valerio De Giorgi (Pianoforte) The young Italian Tenor ANTONIO CORIANO and the Soprano LORELLA TAFURO performing the aria "Mi Chiamano Mimì" from La Boheme, of Giacomo Puccini, at the TEATINI's CORTILE in Lecce Italy. From the Associzaione Culturale BEL CANTO Trepuzzi Italy. For more info about Italy http://www.italianbusinessguide.com/ LA BOHEME GIACOMO PUCCINI La bohème is an opera in four acts by Giacomo Puccini, Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, based on Scènes de la vie de Bohème by Henri Murger. La Bohème is based on Henri Murger's "Scènes de la vie de Bohème," (Scenes of the Bohemian life,) which was drawn from Murger's own experiences as a struggling writer in Paris in the 1830's. Puccini's characters were drawn directly from Murger's story. As for Puccini, La Bohème portrayed many of his own personal experiences. When he was in his twenties and attending the conservatory in Milan, he was like the bohemians in his opera story - a starving young artist. Pietro Mascagni, who later composed Cavalleria Rusticana and L'amico Fritz, was Puccini's roommate. They lived in a garret where they were forbidden to cook, pooled their pennies to buy necessities, and dodged their creditors. And like Colline in the fourth act of the opera, Puccini once pawned his coat for money - but not for such a noble cause -- he was taking a young ballerina out on the town GIACOMO PUCCINI - ITALIAN COMPOSER Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (December 22, 1858 -- November 29, 1924) was an Italian composer whose operas, including La Bohème, Tosca, and Madama Butterfly, are among the most frequently performed in the standard repertoire. Some of his arias, such as "O Mio Babbino Caro" from Gianni Schicchi, "Che gelida manina" from La Bohème, and "Nessun Dorma" from Turandot, have become part of Italian and world popular culture LA BOHEME DE GIACOMO PUCCINI La Bohème es la ópera con la que Giacomo Puccini se consagró definitivamente como un gran compositor lírico. Refleja sus propias vivencias durante los años de estudiante en el conservatorio de Milán, donde compartió habitación con Pietro Mascagni El libreto se basa en la novela por entregas, Escenas de la vida bohemia de Henry Murger, publicada en el periódico El Corsario a lo largo de cinco años (1845 - 1849). Los encargados de simplificar y aunar los diferentes episodios de la novela para así confeccionar el libreto fueron Luigi Illica y Giuseppe Giacosa En este video La Aria Che Gelida Manina cantada por el Joven Tenor Italiano ANTONIO CORIANO |
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 | LA BOHEME Puccini - "O Soave Fanciulla" live in Italy "O soave fanciulla" Puccini: La Bohème Act I Tenor ANTONIO CORIANO (Rodolfo) Soprano LORELLA TAFURO (Mimì) Maestro Valerio De Giorgi (Pianoforte) The young Italian Tenor ANTONIO CORIANO and the Soprano LORELLA TAFURO performing the aria "O Soave Fanciulla" from La Boheme, of Giacomo Puccini, at the TEATINI's CORTILE in Lecce Italy. From the Associzaione Culturale BEL CANTO Trepuzzi Italy. For more info about Italy http://www.italianbusinessguide.com/ LA BOHEME GIACOMO PUCCINI La bohème is an opera in four acts by Giacomo Puccini, Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, based on Scènes de la vie de Bohème by Henri Murger. La Bohème is based on Henri Murger's "Scènes de la vie de Bohème," (Scenes of the Bohemian life,) which was drawn from Murger's own experiences as a struggling writer in Paris in the 1830's. Puccini's characters were drawn directly from Murger's story. As for Puccini, La Bohème portrayed many of his own personal experiences. When he was in his twenties and attending the conservatory in Milan, he was like the bohemians in his opera story - a starving young artist. Pietro Mascagni, who later composed Cavalleria Rusticana and L'amico Fritz, was Puccini's roommate. They lived in a garret where they were forbidden to cook, pooled their pennies to buy necessities, and dodged their creditors. And like Colline in the fourth act of the opera, Puccini once pawned his coat for money - but not for such a noble cause -- he was taking a young ballerina out on the town GIACOMO PUCCINI - ITALIAN COMPOSER Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (December 22, 1858 -- November 29, 1924) was an Italian composer whose operas, including La Bohème, Tosca, and Madama Butterfly, are among the most frequently performed in the standard repertoire. Some of his arias, such as "O Mio Babbino Caro" from Gianni Schicchi, "Che gelida manina" from La Bohème, and "Nessun Dorma" from Turandot, have become part of Italian and world popular culture LA BOHEME DE GIACOMO PUCCINI La Bohème es la ópera con la que Giacomo Puccini se consagró definitivamente como un gran compositor lírico. Refleja sus propias vivencias durante los años de estudiante en el conservatorio de Milán, donde compartió habitación con Pietro Mascagni El libreto se basa en la novela por entregas, Escenas de la vida bohemia de Henry Murger, publicada en el periódico El Corsario a lo largo de cinco años (1845 - 1849). Los encargados de simplificar y aunar los diferentes episodios de la novela para así confeccionar el libreto fueron Luigi Illica y Giuseppe Giacosa En este video La Aria Che Gelida Manina cantada por el Joven Tenor Italiano ANTONIO CORIANO |
 | "Homage to Hanussen" Hanussen, also known as Erik Jan Hanussen (2 June 1889, Vienna - after 25 March 1933, Berlin), was a clairvoyant, mentalist, occultist, and astrologer, active in Weimar Republic Germany and also at the beginning of Nazi Germany. Although Hanussen claimed to be a Danish aristocrat he was in fact a Czech Jew, born as Hermann Steinschneider. Hanussen's father Siegfried Steinschneider (1858, Prostějov - 1910) was an actor and caretaker of a synagogue who married Antonie Julie Kohn in Vienna, Austria. Hanussen performed a mind reading and hypnosis act at La Scala in Berlin that catapulted him to stardom. At his height he enjoyed the company of Germany's military and business elite, also becoming close with members of and lending large sums of money to the SA (Sturmabteilung). It is claimed he was a supporter of Nazis in spite of his Jewish ancestry, which was never a very well kept secret.In 1931 Hanussen published a Breslau printing firm and began publishing an occult journal, Hanussen Magazin and Bunte Wochenschau, a popular biweekly Berlin tabloid which included astrological columns. He used the proceeds from his publishing ventures and stage shows to purchase a mansion which became known as The Palace of the Occult, which he renovated and turned into a luxurious interactive theatre for fortune-telling games. Guests would sit around a large circular table and place their palms on glass with symbols lit from beneath; the room lights would be lowered in a séance-like fashion; and various gimmicks would highlight Hanussen's dramatic verbal presentation of prognostications to the guests. He could predict events in the lives of the individuals present. But controversy arose when he predicted the future of Germany. He became successful, was always in demand in various venues, and had a full-time valet.Hanussen was assassinated on March 25, 1933 Alle Rechte vorbehalten M.C. Baron Samedi Freiburg,1.Juni2008 HS |
 | Nessun Dorma with English subtitles G.Puccini Tenor Franco Tenelli sings "Nessun dorma" ITALIAN; Nessun dorma! Nessun dorma! Tu pure, o, Principessa, nella tua fredda stanza, guardi le stelle che fremono d'amore e di speranza. Ma il mio mistero e chiuso in me, il nome mio nessun sapra! No, no, sulla tua bocca lo diro quando la luce splendera! Ed il mio bacio sciogliera il silenzio che ti fa mia! (Il nome suo nessun sapra!... e noi dovrem, ahime, morir!) Dilegua, o notte! Tramontate, stelle! Tramontate, stelle! All'alba vincero! vincero, vincero! ENGLISH None must sleep! None must sleep! And you, too, Princess, in your cold room, gaze at the stars which tremble with love and hope! But my mystery is locked within me, no-one shall know my name! No, no, I shall say it as my mouth meets yours when the dawn is breaking! And my kiss will break the silence which makes you mine! (No-one shall know his name, and we, alas, shall die!) Vanish, o night! Fade, stars! At dawn I shall win ACT III. In a palace garden, Calàf hears a proclamation: on pain of death, no one in Peking shall sleep until Turandot learns the stranger's name. The prince muses on his impending joy; but Ping, Pang and Pong try unsuccessfully to bribe him to withdraw. As the fearful mob threatens Calàf with drawn daggers to learn his name, soldiers drag in Liù and Timur. Horrified, Calàf tries to convince the mob that neither knows his secret. When Turandot appears, commanding the dazed Timur to speak, Liù cries out that she alone knows the stranger's identity. Though tortured, she remains silent. Impressed by such endurance, Turandot asks Liù's secret; "Love," the girl replies. When the princess signals the soldiers to intensify the torture, Liù snatches a dagger from one of them and kills herself. The grieving Timur and the crowd follow her body as it is carried away. Turandot remains alone to confront Calàf, who at length takes her in his arms, forcing her to kiss him. Knowing physical passion for the first time, Turandot weeps. The prince, now sure of his victory, tells her his name. As the people hail the emperor, Turandot approaches his throne, announcing that the stranger's name is - Love. Puccini(1858-1924) Turandot Premiere(Milano April 25,1926) Original Calaf(in New York) G.Lauri-Volpi |
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