Katia Ricciarelli - Turandot - Liu's Death Scene 

It was Puccini's Requiem for himself.

Uniqueness in fragility.

Frank Taymans Oh yes, me too. Since I was a child.

@@znamoperu brava. Catia, perche sei andata al grande fratello,,,,,,

Anche la Caballé era una meravigliosa Liù.

Anche Anna Moffo era fantastica con la sua voce di velluto.

Probabile.

Well , in the Chinese adaptation of this opera , Turandot reacts badly after Liù commits suicide.She gets very ill , she also got drunk ( I quess that this is all happenning because of guilt ).Calàf's reaction is also very shocking.He is desperate .Turandot's suitors are spared at the end .She appears wearing Liù's clothes and marries Calàf.

Teodora Pipin This from the woman who's been killing people like she's drinking water? It's out of character but makes the marriage to Calaf more believable, although my ideal Turandot would kill herself rather than marry Calaf.

Guess what: me neither 😖😖😖😖😖😖😖

Also Timur...

Agree, it’s opera after all, not vocal technique showoffs.

I love Liù and if I were Calaf I would have definitely gone with her letting Turandot to her cold destiny

Claudio Kutufa Same, but I wish I could make a book or something where Liù and Turandot are best friends(I may be heterosexual woman of 19 ,but I adore female friendships.)Here are pairings of Turandot and Liù that inspired me for that(basically all Turandot and Liù pairings that I know) 1.Eva Marton and Katia Ricciarelli (1983 Vienna) 2.Eva Marton and Leona Mitchell (1987- 1988 MET) 3.Maria Guleghina and Marina Poplavskaya (2009 MET) 4.Maria Guleghina and Tamar Iveri (2010 Verona ,but that one not so much because Tamar is homophobic) 5.Lise Lindstrom and Maria Luigia Borsi (2012 France) 6.Nina Stemme and Anita Hartig (2016 MET) 7.Lise Lindstrom and Aleksandra Kurzak (2017 Royal opera House)

if you write that book, please let me know and I'll be the first one who reads it!

Claudio Kutufa Thank you so much!

Happy to see that I am not the only one who thinks like that. Turandot and Calaf are both idiots without a soul.

Well, those are their respective characters after all

Puccini è grandissimo le sue opere rimarranno immortali. La sua musica accarezza l anima. Sia grandi noi italiani. Per l,arte nn ci batte nessuno!!!!!

Andrea Lupini 9

Last words written by Maestro Puccini .! ❤️

@@teodorajelaca5963 This scene has two deaths in it: Liù and the maestro 😢

This video is just after the start of the "torture". Turandot instructs the guys to leave her for a while and commands her "Speak". Then she replies "I'd rather die". And here is where the video starts.

Puccini, before dying, left 23 papers of scripts for the one that would have successed him for the end of the opera, and we know that Toscanini and the son Antonio Puccini chose Alfano. He first wrote a version more long and with more details, that follow more the scripts of Puccini. But Toscanini didn't accepted it, so Alfano was forced to delete some battutes (infact that ending part is a bit strange and not so "melodic"). Then Janet Meguire studied the manuscripts and composed a version of this, but it's never had been played. In 2001 then Berio wrote his version, more long than the Alfano's one, where Turandot take more time in change herself. Infact, Puccini, in the part of the kiss, wanted Turandot to accept her feelings, not like Alfano's where her pride is broke. By the way, some scholars think that Puccini never ever wanted the Turandot to turn in a tragedia just like his other operas, infact some theorized that he started to slow down till stop himself to write not just because he was sick, but even because of how it wasn't his style to do an happy ending.

The one and only Eva Marton, Hungarian dramatic soprano.

@@davidpayne697 Great singer

@@Milordvega Especially as Turandot in my opinion

Credo che sia innegabile la bellezza della voce e il legato, quello che si critica attualmente è l'ostinazione a volersi umiliare dopo una grande carriera così. Ora dovrebbe solo tacere e lasciare che ci si ricordi di lei per come era negli anni in cui sapeva cantare e che ammiro.

Sempre meglio di quando canta Turandot ! In fondo Liu é un personaggio tipicamente per un lirico ! Una volta si dava alle debuttanti perché considerato una parte senza troppi rischi! Non voglio essere cattivo: qui se la cava via....

Amina ??? Questo è un complimento troppo grande per la Ricciarelli.

@@Tkimba2 vedi che la Ricciarelli quando era giovane aveva una voce Meravigliosa, deliziosa del soprano lirico leggero. Il suo problema non era la bellezza della voce ma la sua tecnica poco adatta alla natura della sua voce. Per questa ragione la Ricciarelli aveva dei problemi nel registro acuto e quello grave. il vecchio