| Turandot |
| Puccini said: "To exalt the passion of Turandot, who for so long has suffered in the sashes of her great pride...when all is said, I cling to the feeling that Turandot is the least bizarre and most human of Gozzi's theatre pieces". He also told Simoni it would be: "a Turandot through the modern mind, yours, Adami's, and mine" The final duet had been a problem from the beginning. What should it be like after the death of Lių? Puccini wrote that "[it should be] the key but it should have something about it of the grand, the bold, the unexpected, and not leave things where they began". It had to represent the triumph of love over everything. "These two beings, who stand...outside the world, are transformed into humans through love, and this love must take possession of everybody on the stage in an orchestral peroration". He also directed that Calāf should kiss Turandot "with a passion which would melt her". Although it is frequently stated that the end of the opera was unfinished at Puccini's death, he had finished detailed sketches. The text of the love duet was done with some notes on the music and with six pages of vocal score. Only the orchestration was unfinished when he left for Brussels. He took the score with him but had a premonition and said, "My opera will be given incomplete, and then someone will come on the stage and say to the public: 'At this point, the composer died!'". . Source |
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| OPERA GOSSIP Freinds at the Last |
| Despine their many battles, Puccini and Toscannin were friends at the end. When Puccini went off to Brussels for treatment of his throat cance, he told Toscannini to take care of his "beloved princess" - his not yet complete Turandot - Puccinini died soon after this. |
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| Roles Princess Turandot soprano The Emperor Altoum, her father tenor Timur, the deposed King of Tartary bass The Unknown Prince (Calāf), his son tenor Lių[7], a slave girl soprano Ping, Lord Chancellor baritone Pang, Majordomo tenor Pong, Head chef of the Imperial Kitchen tenor A Mandarin baritone The Prince of Persia tenor Not named in the original program The Executioner (Pu-Tin-Pao) silent Not named in the original program Imperial guards, the executioner's men, boys, priests, mandarins, dignitaries, eight wise men,Turandot's handmaids, soldiers, standard-bearers, musicians, ghosts of suitors, crowd |