Libretto
Giuseppe Adami und Renato Simoni,
after the play by Carlo Gozzi
Premiere
25 April 1926, Milan (La Scala)
Cast
PRINCESS TURANDOT (soprano)
THE UNKNOWN PRINCE (CALAF) (tenor)
LIU (soprano)
TIMUR (bass)
EMPEROR ALTOUM (tenor)
PING (baritone)
PANG (tenor)
PONG (tenor)
MANDARIN (baritone)
PRINCE OF PERSIA (tenor)
EXECUTIONER (silent)
CHORUS
Imperial guards, the executioner's servants, children, priests, mandarins, the eight wise men, Turandot's handmaidens, soldiers, flag-carriers, musicians, ghosts of the dead, the crowd
Place
China (Peking)
Time
Legendary times