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{{Short description|1926 opera by Giacomo Puccini}}
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{{Infobox opera
| name              = Turandot
| composer          = [[Giacomo Puccini]]
| image             = Poster Turandot.jpg
| image_upright     =
| alt               =
| caption           = The cover of the score printed by Ricordi
| librettist        = {{plainlist|
* [[Giuseppe Adami]]
* [[Renato Simoni]]
}}
| based_on          = [[Carlo Gozzi]]'s play ''[[Turandot (Gozzi)|Turandot]]''
| language          = Italian
| premiere_date     = {{Start date|1926|04|25|df=y}}
| premiere_location = [[La Scala|Teatro alla Scala]], Milan
}}
[[File:1926-Turandot-frontespizio.jpg|thumb|Libretto, 1926]]
'''''Turandot''''' ({{IPA|it|turanˈdo}}<ref name="pronunciation1">{{cite web|first=Neil|last=Kurtzman|title=Turandot Without the T|website=Medicine-Opera.com|url=http://medicine-opera.com/2008/12/turandot-without-the-t/|date=2008-12-22|access-date=2019-07-07}}</ref><ref name="pronunciation2">{{Cite journal|first = Patrick Vincent|last = Casali|date= July 1997|title = The Pronunciation of Turandot: Puccini's Last Enigma| journal = [[The Opera Quarterly]]|volume = 13|issue = 4|pages = 77–91|issn = 0736-0053|doi=10.1093/oq/13.4.77}}</ref> {{IPA|it|turanˈdɔt|label=or||it-Turandot.ogg}};<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.dizionario.rai.it/poplemma.aspx?lid=8883|title= Turandot|work= Dizionario italiano multimediale e multilingue d'ortografia e di pronunzia|editor= Bruno Migliorini|language= it|access-date= 5 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.dipionline.it/dizionario/ricerca?lemma=Turandot|title=Turandot|work=Dizionario di pronuncia italiana online|author= Luciano Canepari|language= it|access-date= 5 August 2019}}</ref> <small>see [[#Origin and pronunciation of the name|below]]</small>) is an [[opera]] in three acts by [[Giacomo Puccini]] to a [[libretto]] in Italian by [[Giuseppe Adami]] and [[Renato Simoni]]. Puccini left the opera unfinished at the time of his death in 1924; it premiered in 1926 after the music was posthumously completed by [[Franco Alfano]].

The opera is set in [[China]] and follows the Prince Calaf, who falls in love with the cold-hearted Princess Turandot.<ref>[https://etd.ohiolink.edu/!etd.send_file?accession=bgsu1273466517&disposition=inline ''Turandot's Homecoming: Seeking the Authentic Princess of China in a New Contest of Riddles''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304192233/https://etd.ohiolink.edu/!etd.send_file?accession=bgsu1273466517&disposition=inline|date=4 March 2016}}, [[Master of Music]] thesis by Ying-Wei Tiffany Sung, Graduate College of [[Bowling Green State University]], August 2010</ref> In order to win her hand in marriage, a suitor must solve three riddles, with a wrong answer resulting in his execution. Calaf passes the test, but Turandot refuses to marry him. He offers her a way out: if she is able to guess his name before dawn the next day, he will accept death.