Puccini: "Là sui monti dell'Est" ("The Mountains of the East" from Turandot)

Puccini's "Mountains of the East" from Turandot.
Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra (1989)
San Francisco Opera Chorus and Orchestra (1994)

Giacomo Puccini wrote the opera "Turandot" in 1924. It is based on a story by Scheherezade, the well-known Persian Queen and the story teller of the "One Thousand and One Nights". The story is about a Persian prince and Chinese Princess. "the Mountains of the East" is in the Act #1. The same melody briefly reappears in Act #2 ("Gloria, gloria, o vincitore!") and Act #3 (Principessa divina!").

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• Turandot
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