Opera - Turandot
GIACOMO PUCCINI
(1858-1924)
Turandot
118:39
Lyric drama in three acts
Libretto by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni, after Gozzi's dramatic fairy-tale
Act I
1
'People of proud Peking'
4:11
Mandarin, Crowd, Guards, Liù, Unknown Prince, Timur
2
'When all was lost'
1:21
Timur, Unknown Prince, Liù, Crowd
3
'Sharpen the axe!'
2:27
Crowd, Executioner's Assistant
4
'Is the moon never rising?'
4:45
Crowd
5
'How young to die!'
5:27
Crowd, Unknown Prince, White Priests of the Procession
6
'Son, are you mad?'
1:47
Timur, Unknown Prince, Liù, Prince of Persia, Crowd
7
'What do you want? Who are you?'
1:54
Ping, Pong, Pang, Unknown Prince
8
'Why so much noise?'
1:45
Turandot's Handmaidens, Ping, Pong, Pang, Unknown Prince, Timur
9
'Nights without a gleam of starlight . . .'
2:35
Pang, Pong, Ping, Voices of the Shadows, Unknown Prince, Timur
10
'I beg you, hear me'
2:29
Liù
11
'Don't cry for me, Liù'
2:07
Unknown Prince, Liù, Timur
12
'Ah! How can you ignore us?'
2:36
Timur, Liù, Ping, Pong, Pang, Unknown Prince, Crowd
Act II
Scene 1
13
'Hallo Pang! Hallo Pong!'
3:10
14
'I've a house in fair Honan'
4:11
Ping, Pong, Pang
15
'Do you remember when the Royal Prince of Samarkand came?'
5:17
Ping, Voices within, Pong, Pang
Scene 2
16
'With the three enigmas ready'
4:26
Crowd
17
'I am the pris'ner of a ghastly promise'
4:20
Emperor, Unknown Prince, Crowd
18
'People of proud Peking!'
1:50
Mandarin, Crowd
19
'Within this Palace a story lives forever'
2:38
Turandot, Crowd
20
'O Princess who in caravans of splendour'
3:24
Turandot, Unknown Prince, Crowd
21
'O stranger, now listen!'
7:54
Turandot, Unknown Prince, Sages, Emperor, Crowd, Liù
22
'Emp'ror and father! Son of Heaven!'
3:01
Turandot, Emperor, Crowd, Unknown Prince
23
'Three enigmas that you asked me'
4:18
Raimondo, Lucia
Act III
Scene 1
24
'The Princess Turandot commands'
3:18
Heralds, Distant Voices
25
'None shall sleep now!'
3:30
Unknown Prince, Women's Voices, Ping, Pong, Pang
26
'These girls should please you!'
4:07
Ping, Pong, Pang, Maidens, Unknown Prince, Crowd, Guards
27
'How pale you look, O stranger!'
3:18
Turandot, Unkown Prince, Liù, Crowd, Ping, Timur
28
'Yes, I love him so deeply!'
3:21
Liù, Turandot, Ping, Unknown Prince, Crowd
29
'You who with ice are shrouded'
2:58
Liù, Crowd, Unknown Prince
30
'Liù!. . . Liù!. . . Wake up!'
4:49
Timur, Ping, Crowd, Pong, Pang
31
'Deathly Princess, so heartless!'
3:24
Unknown Prince, Turandot
32
'What have you done?'
3:15
Turandot, Unknown Prince, Voices
33
'I never wept before'
4:47
Turandot, Unknown Prince
Scene 2
34
'Glory to our Emp'ror!'
3:32
Crowd, Turandot
Jane Eaglen soprano - Princess Turandot
Nicolai Gedda tenor - The Emperor Altoum
Clive Bayley bass - Timur
Dennis O'Neill tenor - Calaf
Mary Plazas soprano - Liù
Peter Sidhom baritone - Ping
Mark Le Brocq tenor - Pang/Prince of Persia
Peter Wedd tenor - Pong
Simon Bailey baritone - A Mandarin
David Parry
28 April- 3 May 2001