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Met Live: Turandot Encore
Saturday, Aug 25, 2018 10:00 AM
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Admission Student - $0.00
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Turandot is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini, completed
by Franco Alfano, and set to a libretto in Italian by Giuseppe Adami and Renato
Simoni. Though Puccini's first interest in the subject was based on his reading
of Friedrich Schiller's 1801 adaptation of the play, his work is most nearly
based on the earlier text Turandot (1762) by Count Carlo Gozzi. The original
story is based on one of the seven stories in the epic Haft Peykar (The Seven
Beauties), work of 12th-century Persian poet Nizami. Nizami aligned the seven
stories with the seven days of the week, the seven colors and the seven
corresponding planets. This particular story is the story of Monday ("moon
day"), being told to King Bahram by his companion of the red dome. In the
very first line of this story, the protagonist is identified as a Russian
princess. The name of the opera is based on Turan-Dokht (daughter of Turan),
which is a common name used in Persian poetry for Central Asian princesses.
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