Turandot

About the show

In legendary Peking, Princess Turandot requires suitors to solve three riddles or be executed. Prince Calaf accepts the challenge, answers all three, and offers Turandot a chance to avoid marrying him: if she discovers his name before dawn, he will die. She orders the city to find it. Calaf’s companion Liù refuses to reveal his identity and dies under torture. Calaf then tells Turandot his name; at dawn she announces to the Emperor and people that his name is Love.