I was left wanting to buy the Turandot CD! My favorite aria though, was the beautiful harmonies sung by Ping Pang and Pong in the 2nd Act.
Marco Berti sung a beautiful “Nessun dorma”. Her singing was very heartfelt as well as her acting. The cast had beautiful voices, especially shining I thought was the character Liu, sung by current Adler Fellow, Leah Crocetto. A blending of these ingredients, while being the final work of Italy’s last major operatic composer, lends the opus a deserved, almost mythical status.” The man-devouring Turandot claiming her creator as one of her victims remains a chilling factor, as does the hypothesis that the inspiration for Liu’s touching death resulted form the suicide of one of the composer’s domestics. Consisting of terror, hopelessness, and Kafkaesque fear, Turandot, more nightmare than fairy tale, remains an astonishingly disturbing paradigm of the composer’s final summing-up. “These two beings that…stand outside the world are transformed into humans through love…” was how he chose to define the challenge of creating a convincing denouement. “Aware of the tremendous difficulties of depicting Turandot’s sudden transformation from icon of hate to loving virgin, Puccini fretted over the final Turandot/Calaf (son of dethroned Tartar king, Timur, and who successfully answered the three riddles winning Turandot) for the better part of two years. Puccini was dying of throat cancer while composing Turandot, and his sudden death (from heart failure) on November 29,1924 left the opera incomplete (he did have some thirty-six pages of sketches necessary for the opera’s completion). Puccini’s Turandot has a very interesting story.
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