Turandot with NYOF
- Mar 28
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On Saturday, March 28th at 1PM ET, we will be giving a concert performance of Turandot at the beautiful Scarsdale Public Library.
I will be singing Liù!
It will be livestreamed here:
If attending in person, you can RSVP on the library's website:
Here is more info from the library's website:
Event Details
Join us in the Scott Room for an afternoon of one of the great staples of classic opera!
The New York Opera Forum will be presenting a concert version of Giacomo Puccini's opera Turandot. Puccini actually passed away in 1924 before completing the opera; the score was finished two years with contributions from Franco Alfano. Turandot is set in imperial China and tells the story - likely based on a medieval Persian poem - of the romance of Prince Calaf who falls in love with the cold-hearted Princess Turandot. In order to win her hand in marriage, a suitor must solve three riddles, with failure to answer resulting in execution. Though Calaf passes the tests, Turandot initially pleads with her father to not require that she to marry him. Calaf, offers Turandot a riddle of her own to escape the marriage if she so wishes: to guess his name before the night is done. Merciless, Turandot endeavors to force Calaf's name from one of the prince's servants. Later as Calaf makes his passionate plea that he loves her, he ultimately tells her his name himself, placing his life in her hands. The next morning, Turandot, reciprocating, declares that she knows his true nature - love - and agrees to marry him.
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