Language: Italian
Subtitles: English, French, German, Spanish

Turandot is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to a libretto in Italian by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni. Puccini left the opera unfinished at the time of his death in 1924; it premiered in 1926 after the music was posthumously completed by Franco Alfano.

The opera is set in China and follows the Prince Calaf, who falls in love with the cold and cruel Princess Turandot, whose beauty is legendary and attracts many suitors to Beijing. In order to win her hand in marriage, a suitor must solve three riddles, with a wrong answer resulting in their execution. Calaf passes the test, but Turandot refuses to marry him. He offers her a way out: if she is able to guess his name before dawn the next day, he will accept death.

The title of the opera is derived from the Persian term Turandokht ('daughter of Turan'), a name frequently given to Central Asian princesses in Persian poetry. Turan is a region of Central Asia that was once part of the Persian Empire. Dokht is a contraction of dokhtar (daughter); the kh and t are both pronounced. Standard Italian pronunciation prescribes pronouncing the final t. However, according to Puccini scholar Patrick Vincent Casali, the t is silent in the name of the opera and of its title character, thus [turanˈdo].

Director: Jacopo Sipari di Pescasseroli (Music Director)
Cast: Puccini Festival Orchestra & Choirs, La Principessa Turandot: Rebeka Lokar, Imperatore Altoum: Vlademir Reutov, Timur Alessandro: Davide Mura, Il Principe Ignoto (Calaf): Amati Lagha, Liu: Francesca Cappelletti, Ping: Mauro Buda, Pang: Ugo Tarquini, Pong: Tiziano Barontini, A Mandarino: Claudio Ottino, I Ancella: Carlotta Vichi, II Ancella: Donatella De Caro