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9 unusual facts about Turandot


530 Turandot

530 Turandot is a minor planet orbiting the Sun that was discovered by German astronomer Max Wolf on April 11, 1904 and named for the title character in Puccini's opera.

Anne-Lise Berntsen

Among her performances were title roles in the operas Turandot, Ariadne auf Naxos and Carmen, and "Maria" in Wozzeck.

Fountains in Moscow

Bourganov built the Turandot Fountain next to the Vakhtangov Theater on the Old Arbat.

Galileo Chini

His theatrical work included designing the sets for the European premiere of Puccini's opera Gianni Schicchi (Rome, January 1919) and the world premiere of his Turandot (Milan, 1926), and the sets for the premieres of Umberto Giordano's opera La cena delle beffe (Milan, 1924) and Sem Benelli's play of the same name on which the opera was based (Rome, 1909).

Hisham Abdel Khalek

His operatic repertoire includes 20 operas ranging from Aida, Tosca, Carmen, Rigoletto, La Traviata, La Boheme to Turandot.

Miklós Radnai

These were followed by the Hungarian premieres, mostly shortly after their world premieres, of Stravinsky's Oedipus rex, Puccini's Turandot, Milhaud's "three-minute" operas, Hindemith's Hin und zurück, Malipiero's Il finto Arlecchino (from his trilogy Il mistero di Venezia), and others.

Posillipo

Posillipo is the birthplace of Franco Alfano, the Italian composer and pianist best known for completing Turandot.

Richard Wherrett

Turandot, Giacomo Puccini's final opera, was a lavish production starring Corneliu Murgu, Olivia Stapp and Glenys Fowles, with the State Orchestra of Victoria conducted by Richard Divall.

Wolfgang Hildesheimer

1954 Das Märchen von Prinzessin Turandot (The Fairy Tale of Princess Turandot), a radio play


Cape Town Opera

Notable international productions include performances for the opening of the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff, Puccini's Turandot with NorrlandsOperan, a 2005 European tour of Jerome Kern's and Oscar Hammerstein's Show Boat, and performances of Porgy and Bess with both the Welsh National Opera and NorrlandsOperan in 2006, and Deutsche Oper Berlin in 2008.

Carlo Cossutta

It marked the beginning of his reigning years at the Teatro Colón where he portrayed four roles in 1964: the title role in the world premiere of Alberto Ginastera's Don Rodrigo, Gabriele Adorno in Verdi's Simon Boccanegra, Kalaf in Ferruccio Busoni's Turandot, and the title role in "Oedipus Rex" ((Stravinsky)).

China National Opera

In the same year CNOH performed Puccini’s Turandot in Cairo Opera House.

Clamma Dale

She spent the next several years working in various opera houses in Paris, singing roles like Liu in Puccini's Turandot, Musetta in Puccini's La bohème, Pamina in The Magic Flute, and the one-woman tour de force of the bloodthirsty title character in Erzsebet, an opera by Charles Chaynes.

Daniel Oren

His opera repertoire includes many Verdi operas, including Aida, Simon Boccanegra, La Traviata, Rigoletto and Nabucco; Puccini operas such as Madama Butterfly, Tosca and Turandot; as well as Andrea Chenier (Giordano), Norma (Bellini), La Juive (Halevy) and Carmen (Bizet).

Eugenio Fernandi

His recording career is limited to the 1957 recording of Turandot, opposite Maria Callas and Elisabeth Schwarzkopf.

Éva Marton

She has also portrayed Turandot in six television and video productions, including a Vienna State Opera production directed by Harold Prince, a Metropolitan Opera production created by Franco Zeffirelli production and a production designed by David Hockney filmed at the San Francisco Opera.

She has recorded Turandot twice, conducted first by Lorin Maazel and later Roberto Abbado.

Franco Alfano

Dryden, Konrad (2010) Franco Alfano: transcending Turandot.

Giorgio Tozzi

Tozzi was the recipient of three Grammy Awards: in 1960 the Grammy Award for Best Classical Performance, Operatic or Choral for The Marriage of Figaro with Erich Leinsdorf; in 1961 the Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording for Puccini's Turandot, with Erich Leinsdorf; and in 1963 the Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording for Georg Solti's recording of Verdi's Aida (with Leontyne Price and Jon Vickers).

Khutulun

Carlo Gozzi wrote his own version fifty years later, a stage play in which she was a “tigerish woman” of “unrelenting pride.” Friedrich Schiller translated and adapted the play into German as Turandot, Prinzessin von China in 1801.

Kirk Browning

Browning won two Primetime Emmy Awards, one for directing a 1987 special with Plácido Domingo and the other for his 1988 production of Turandot, both broadcast by PBS, and two Daytime Emmy Awards, for The CBS Festival of Lively Arts for Young People in 1973 and La Gioconda in 1979.

Mafalda Salvatini

She was committed again to the Berlin State Opera from 1924-1926 where she was heard in the title role of Puccini's Turandot for the work's Berlin premiere in 1926 under the baton of Bruno Walter.

Nathaniel Merrill

His first major critical successes at the Met came during the 1960–1961 season when he directed the new staging of L'elisir d'amore and staged a brand new production of Puccini's Turandot that was designed by Cecil Beaton.

Nicolai Gedda

A singer of unusual longevity, Gedda has been active well into his late 70s; in May 2001 he recorded the role of the Emperor Altoum in Puccini's Turandot and the role of the High Priest in Mozart's Idomeneo in June 2003.

Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber

The Weber themes are taken from incidental music Weber wrote for a play by Carlo Gozzi based on the same Turandot legend that later inspired Giacomo Puccini and others.

The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire

A story from Khutulun's life is featured in Italian composer Giacomo Puccini's Turandot.

Viive Sterpu

This serie of 14 heroines ( Anna, Tigrana, Manon, Mimi/Musetta, Tosca, Cio-Cio-San, Minnie, Magda, Giorgetta, Suor Angeliga, Lauretta, Liú/Turandot) she donated to the Villa Museo Giacomo Puccini ( Torre del Lago Puccini Italy) on April 2007.

Yevgeny Vakhtangov

His most notable production was Turandot by Carlo Gozzi, which has played at the Vakhtangov Theatre ever since 1922 (the year of his death).


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