"Non piangere Liu" from Puccini's "Turandot"-Franco Tenelli

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Franco Tenelli as Calaf from Puccini's TurandotItalian verse and English translation:Non piangere, Liu,Se in un lontano giorno io t'ho sorriso,per quel sorriso, dolce mia fianculla, m'ascolta:Il tuo signore sara domani, forse solo al mondo...Non lo lasciare, portalo in via con te.Dell'esilio addolcisci a lui le strade.Questo, o mia povera Liu,al tuo piccolo cuore non cade,chiedi colui che non sorride piu!Don't cry, Liu-If in a distant day I smiled at you,Of this smile my sweet maiden, listen to me:Your man will be tomorrow, perhaps alone in the worldDon't lose it, carry it with you.In exile, it will sweeten his roads.With this, my poor Liu,Your small heart won't break,Ask him who smiles no more!ACT I. Peking, legendary times. In a quarter swarming with people near the Forbidden City, a Mandarin reads an edict: any prince seeking to marry Princess Turandot must answer three riddles - and if he fails, he will die. Her latest suitor, the Prince of Persia, is to be executed at the rise of the moon. Bloodthirsty citizens urge the executioner on, and in the tumult a slave girl, Liù, calls out for help when her aged master is pushed to the ground. A handsome youth recognizes him as his long-lost father, Timur, vanquished king of Tartary. When the old man tells his son, Prince Calàf, that only Liù has remained faithful to him, the youth asks her why. She replies it is because once, long ago, Calàf smiled on her. The mob again cries for blood, but the moon emerges, and all fall into sudden, fearful silence. The doomed suitor passes on the way to execution, moving the onlookers to call upon Turandot to spare his life. Turandot appears and, with a contemptuous gesture, bids the execution proceed. The crowd hears a death cry in the distance. Calàf, smitten with the princess' beauty, determines to win her as his bride, striding to the gong that proclaims the arrival of a new suitor. Turandot's ministers Ping, Pang and Pong try to discourage the youth, their warnings supplemented by the entreaties of Timur and the tearful Liù. Despite their pleas, Calàf strikes the fatal gong and calls out Turandot's name.

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Uploaded: November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am
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