Calaf, the exiled prince of Tatar in China, reunited with his father Timur and maid Li Er, and witnessed the execution of Prince Persia and Turandot in person. Prince Calaf was attracted by the beauty of Princess Turandot and answered all the questions correctly despite the opposition of his father Liu Erping, Pang and Pang. It turns out that the answers to these three puzzles are Hope, Enthusiasm and Turandot.
However, Turandot refused to admit defeat. He cheated his father and refused to marry Prince Calaf. So the prince created a puzzle himself. As long as the princess knows his name before dawn, Calaf not only refuses to marry the princess, but is also willing to be executed. The princess caught the prince's father, Timur, and the servant girl, Liuer, and tortured him to extract a confession.
Liu Er committed suicide as a sign of keeping a secret. Timur accused Turandot of being ruthless. At dawn, the princess didn't know the prince's name yet, but the prince's strong kiss melted her cold heart, and the prince also told the princess his real name. The princess did not announce the real name of the prince, but announced that she would marry the prince of the world, and said that the prince's name was "Amore", which means "love" in Italian.
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Turandot (Italian: Turandot) is a three-act opera composed by Puccini Giacomao, and the script is adapted from the creation of Italian playwright Carlo Gozzi. Puccini failed to finish the whole play when he was alive. After Puccini's death, Franco Alfano finished the whole play according to Puccini's draft.
The play premiered at Scala Opera House in Milan on April 25th, 1926, with toscanini as the conductor. In this opera, Puccini partly adopted the tune of China folk song Jasmine.