Opera “Turandot” by Puccini

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“You may forget all my works before this!” Giacomo Puccini’s the most spectacular, the grandest masterpiece! Giacomo Puccini’s last opera “Turandot” is a story about the beautiful but icy cold Princess Turandot in China. The Princess puts her princely suitors to a test and Calaf, prince of the Tatar people, tries to answer her three riddles at the risk of his life. In “Turandot,” the audience will follow Prince Calaf’s journey to solve the riddles. “Nessun Dorma,” Calaf’s triumphant aria sung when he is confident of solving all three riddles, is most well-known. A story of audacious endeavor and love created in the hands of world-class singers and a veteran production team The world best Calaf, Lee Yong-hoon’s opera debut in Korea An A-list cast including Lee Yoon-jung, acclaimed soprano on the European stages The upcoming “Turandot” featuring the star-studded cast is expected to be a musically enriched production with Calaf portrayed by Lee Yong-hoon who shook up the opera world and Turandot by the world-famous soprano Lee Yoon-jung. And the expectation gets even higher for a more spectacular and grander stage in the direction of the master of theater Sohn Jin-Chaek. Three riddles, but one love Turandot is notorious as an ‘icy cold princess’ among her people. She decrees to marry only a suitor who can answer her three riddles, and if he cannot, the price shall be his head. When Calaf, the prince from a vanquished land, takes on the riddles and wins, Turandot refuses to marry him for the reason of his suspicious identity. Calaf makes a suggestion to her that he call the whole thing off and get beheaded if she figures out his real name before dawn. In order to discover his name, Turandot makes her people awake all night and tortures Liu, the slave girl to Calaf. Liu, secretly in love with Calaf, resists to reveal his name to the end and kills herself. And Calaf realizes from Liu what true love is. 주최: 세종문화회관