Venue: National Centre for the Performing Arts - Opera House

Date: December 22, 2017

Duration: Approximate 129 mins

About

Production Year: 2014

Language: Italian (with English & Chinese subtitles)

Presenter: National Centre for the Performing Arts

Executive Presenter: CHEN Ping

Performed by China NCPA Orchestra, China NCPA Chorus

Credits Composer: Giacomo Puccini

Ending aria by Hao Weiya

Conductor: Daniel Oren

Film Director: Tiziano Mancini

Cast

Turandot: SUN Xiuwei

Calaf: DAI Yuqiang

Liù: YAO Hong

Timur: TIAN Haojiang

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. Calaf, the prince of Tartary who is in exile in China, determines to win her as his bride and answers all the questions correctly.

However, Princess Turandot refuses to accept defeat. Calaf 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, which 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 finally tells her his real name. Yet Princess Turandot does not announce the prince's real name, on the contrary, she announces that she will marry the prince and his name is Love.