Turandot: A Five-Act Tragedy-Comedy

Author: (Italian) Carlo Gozzi
Publisher:
Publish Date: 2004-09-01
Features: Who first created the artistic image of the Chinese princess Turandot? Why can a literary work cross the dust of centuries, bridge the cultural gap between the East and the West, and be favored by masters in literature, music, theater, dance, and film such as Goethe, Schiller, Busoni, Puccini, Toscanini, Pavarotti, Domingo, Zubin Mehta, Zhang Yimou, Lin Zhaohua, and Wei Minglun, and be repeatedly adapted into various versions of operas, plays, ballets, Peking Opera, Sichuan Opera, Yu Opera, Cantonese Opera, and television dramas? Carlo Gozzi's fairy tale play, The Chinese Princess Turandot, written over two hundred years ago, is actually such a literary work? Let us open the book, trace its origins, and appreciate the infinite wonders of classic art.