Princess Turandot, the namesake of Puccini's final opera, "Turandot," was easy to please when it came to men. Answer her three riddles correctly and you had her heart. Get them wrong and she had your ...

The mandarins announce the emperor's decree in the streets of Peking: he who solves Princess Turandot's riddles will win her hand. The crowd is ecstatically waiting for the execution of the Persian ...

The opera’s hero, prince-in-disguise Calaf, takes one look at a formidable princess and falls violently in love. Turandot, whose heart seems impenetrable, fends off all claimants to her hand by posing ...

Princess Turandot, beautiful daughter of Chinese Emperor Altoum, declares she will only marry a man of royal blood who can correctly answer three riddles. If the suitor fails to come up with the ...