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| Disc: 1 | |||
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| 1. Act I: Popolo di Pekino! | |||
| 2. Act I: Padre! Mio Padre! | |||
| 3. Act I: Perduta la battaglia | |||
| 4. Act I: Gira la cote! Gira! | |||
| 5. Act I: Perche tarda la luna? | |||
| 6. Act I: La, sui monti dell'est | |||
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. Act III - Scene I: Cosi comanda Turandot | |||
| 2. Act III - Scene I: Nessum dorma! | |||
| 3. Act III - Scene I: Tu che guardi le stelle | |||
| 4. Act III - Scene I: Pricipessa divina! | |||
| 5. Act III - Scene I: Quel nome! | |||
| 6. Act III - Scene I: L'amore?...Tanto amore, segreto e inconfessato | |||
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| Disc: 3 | |||
| 1. Turandot: Libretto | |||
| 2. Turandot: Synopsis | |||
- on record at least - the most natural piece of casting ... one of the
most thrillingly magnetic of all her recorded performances."
Synopsis
Puccini's final, and unfinished opera, set in Imperial China, features
perhaps the most famous of all arias, the tenor's glorious `Nessun
dorma'. It is sung in the final act by Prince Calaf, expressing his
confidence that no one in Peking will discover his name before sunrise.
He has guessed the answers to the three riddles set to her royal suitors
by the beautiful, but icy Princess Turandot. A succession of princes has
already paid the price of failure: execution. Calaf has, however, struck
a bargain with Turandot: if she finds out his name, he will die; if she
does not, she will be his. Puccini's score, completed after his death by
Franco Alfano, is breathtaking, shot through with oriental colour and
melody, and full of brutality, pageantry and lyricism. The soprano in
the title role makes a spectacular entrance with her narrative aria `In
questa reggia', while the subsequent Riddle Scene brings strenuous
sparring with the tenor. Contrasting with the Chinese princess is the
gentle, but courageous Liù, a slave girl who has long been in love with
Calaf. Her heartbreaking `Signore, ascolta' launches the spinetingling
finale to Act I, while in Act III her two arias, followed by her
suicide, finally thaw Turandot's heart.
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