What is the story of Turandot?

In the Yuan Dynasty, a princess, Turandot (meaning "warm" dulaan in Mongolian), in order to avenge her ancestor's captivity in the dark of the night, ordered that if there was a man who could guess her three riddles, she would marry him; if she guessed incorrectly, she would be put to death. Three years down the line, multiple unlucky men have perished.

Calaf, a Tatar prince in exile during the Yuan Dynasty, is reunited with his father Timur and his daughter-in-law Liu'er in Peking, where he sees the prince of Persia, who was executed for failing to guess the riddles, and Turandot, who personally supervised the execution. Attracted by the beauty of Princess Turandot, Prince Calaf defies his father, Liu'er and three ministers and answers all the questions correctly, which turn out to be "hope", "blood" and "Turandot". Turandot".

But Turandot refused to admit defeat, and played a trick on his father, not wanting to marry Prince Karaf, so the prince himself came up with a riddle, as long as the Princess if before dawn to learn his name, Karaf not only do not marry the Princess, but also willing to be executed. The princess catches the prince's father, Timur, and his maid, Willow, and tortures them to make them confess.

Liu'er kills herself to keep the secret. Calaf uses this to accuse Turandot of being very heartless. At dawn, the princess did not yet know the prince's name, but the prince's strong kiss melted her ice-cold heart, and the prince told the princess his real name. The princess did not announce the prince's real name, but announced the world to marry the prince, the prince's name is "love (Amora), the Mongolian language for "lovers or the meaning of peace" ".

In 1998, Zhang Yimou directed his first opera, "Turandot," with the Forbidden City as the natural backdrop for the show stunned the world, followed by Zhang Yimou's temple version of "Turandot" successfully staged around the world. 11 years later, he and his Olympic Games Opening Ceremony team invested 120 million to create "Turandot" will be moved into the Bird's Nest.

According to reports, Zhang Yimou's Bird's Nest version of "Turandot" will draw on the experience of the Olympic opening and closing ceremonies, for the first time, the introduction of modern high-tech visual effects, multi-media images of the classic reinterpretation. From Italy and China's outstanding singers Dai Yuqiang, Mo Hualun, Tian Haojiang, Sun Xiuwei, Missy Hong, etc., *** with the interpretation of this classic opera.

Yu Dan, a famous Chinese scholar, said that looking ahead, China's culture needs a strong cultural brand drive, and "Turandot" came into being, as a continuation of the Olympic passion and sublimation, "Turandot" has since opened the post-Olympic era, "the new cultural movement" of the magnificent prelude, marking China's culture to go out to the more far-reaching industrialization, commercialization and development of Chinese culture. It marks the beginning of a new cultural movement in the post-Olympics era, marking the beginning of Chinese culture going out to a more far-reaching industrialization and commercialization direction.

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