FULL TURANDOT (Busoni) & GIANNI SCHICCHI Porto Alegre 2024 Saulo Javan, Marly Montoni, Raquel Paulin, Juliana Taino
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Turandot & Gianni Schicchi
- Composer: Busoni Ferruccio, Puccini Giacomo
- Libretto: Ferruccio Busoni, Giovacchino Forzano Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Theatro São Pedro, Porto Alegre, Brazil
- Recorded: August 9, 2024
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Saulo Javan, Marly Montoni, Raquel Paulin, Juliana Taino, Nathália Serrano, Daniel Umbelino, Giovanni Tristacci, Douglas Hahn, Rodrigo Esteves, Gustavo Lassen, Ney Piacentini, Barbara Blasques, Isaque Oliveira
- Conductor: Ira Levin
- Orchestra: Orquestra do Theatro São Pedro
- Chorus Master: Bruno Costa
- Stage Director: Alexandre Dal Farra
- Stage Designer: Duda Arruk
- Costume Designer: Fábio Namatame
- Lighting Designer: Mirella Brandi,
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Theatro São Pedro
- Date Published: 2024
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: yessubs, othersubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Turandot (BV 273) is a 1917 opera with spoken dialogue and in two acts by Ferruccio Busoni. Busoni prepared his own libretto, in German, based on the play of the same name by Count Carlo Gozzi. The music for Busoni’s opera is based on the incidental music, and the associated Turandot Suite (BV 248), which Busoni had written in 1905 for a production of Gozzi’s play. The opera is often performed as part of a double bill with Busoni’s earlier one-act opera Arlecchino.
Synopsis
Busoni greatly simplified Gozzi’s 5-act play into an opera of two acts of two scenes each. However,the basic plot is the same. Turandot, daughter of the Emperor, challenges all suitors for her hand with three riddles. She will marry the one who answers correctly, but those who fail are executed. Kalaf, an exiled prince in disguise, takes up the challenge.
Act 1
Scene 1:
Kalaf comes upon the picture discarded by an earlier executed suitor, and determines to win Turandot.
Scene 2:
Emperor Altoum complains of Turandot’s intransigence. Kalaf says he would rather die than fail to win Turandot. Turandot enters with her maid Adelma who recognises the Prince, but remains silent. Kalaf correctly answers the three riddles, and challenges Turandot to discover his name and parentage; if she does so, he will depart.
Act 2
Scene 1:
Slave girls dance to a wordless choral version of “Greensleeves”.[18] Turandot confesses her mixed feelings for the Prince. Adelma says she knows the Prince’s name, and will tell Turandot if she can have her freedom; Turandot agrees.
Scene 2:
Turandot announces Kalaf’s name to general consternation, and he makes ready to depart. But Turandot stops him, saying he has awakened her heart. The work closes with a final ensemble ‘Was ist das alle Menschen bindet?’ (“What is it that rules all men?”) to which is the reply ‘Die Liebe’ (“Love”).