Immediately after the appearance of the pair-Liu and Timur the fall of the old, enters a young traveler who recognizes in his weak father, the king of the Tartars, defeated and fugitive. So we know that it is a prince who has to hide because the person who defeated his father wants him dead. It is therefore a prince in disguise (whether it be the heir of the king of the Tartars is very important, and we try to keep it in mind!) And just being unknown will play an important role in the affair. Immediately after the joy and emotion of mutual discovery and presentation of the faithful Liu ("Blessed"), takes over the crowd awaiting the inevitable death of the young prince, who has failed the test. Of course, Calaf (we begin to call it that, because this is his name ...), anagrafe generous and impulsive as he is angered and curses the cruel princess, but his only appearance, the situation is reversed. Turandot is the fascination that produces immediate and irresistible to the young prince, and he passes from the curse of the magical wonder ("O divine beauty, or wonder!"). And no argument, that is dictated by common sense (the three ministers Ping, Pang and Pong), the pull of paternal just found (Timur) or by the loving and passionate dedication to Liu, the decision may dissuade groped evidence that he has already destroyed many young lives, but that he now feels like his "destiny" irrevocable.
But who is really Calaf? If Turandot is connected to the moon in its dark and destructive aspect (at least), Calaf is its male counterpart shiny and positive, so that his victory will mark the dawn, the sunrise, the sun highlighting the identification = male. Already from the start we see him passionate and warm, at least Turandot is just as cold and detached, and their opposites on "fire" and "freeze" will be played throughout the story. The Princess of frost will be infected and loose dall'ardore and fire of Eros, personified by Calaf, a company which has failed to numerous young princes who performed the test. However, they are the only ones (it is important to recognize) that encourage Calaf not give up ("Do not delay! If you call, is what makes us dream extinct"), almost as if they would entrust to him to continue their dream and through his victory to make sense of their enterprise, or failure forever.
Part of the psychology of the hero to leave the "Princess", often embedded in a dragon or monster, through a series of dangerous tests. And the nature of "solar" consists in the victory over the dragon as the sun overcomes the darkness of the night and the consciousness is stated on the original domain of the unconscious (the theme of the hero as a principle of consciousness that emerges is different and struggling with the dragon of the unconscious and disengaging himself from the regressive devouring mother is played masterfully by Erich Neumann in his book "History of the origins of consciousness", ed. Astrolabe). But it must be said immediately that Calaf is a hero different from the prototype we know from myth, from heroes like Theseus, Heracles, Perseus and Sigurd, for instance, and also as St. George who is the heir to the Christian, who get the win "by killing the dragon," that is destroying the opponent. We will see it as not only
Calaf will not use its undeniable victory, but he himself restate their lives at risk, and that is something absolutely new in the psychology of the hero.
Click here for the lyrics to "O divine beauty."
CALAFO divine beauty! O wonder! O dream!
PRIESTS
O great Koung-tze! May the spirit of the dying person comes up to you!
TIMUR
Son, what are you doing?
CALAF
Can not you hear? Its fragrance is in the air! It is in the soul!
TIMUR
You are lost!
CALAF
O divine beauty, wonder! I suffer, father, I suffer!
TIMUR
No, no! Close to me. Liu, you talk to him! Here there is no salvation!
Get your hand in his hand!
LIÙ
Lord, let us go away!
TIMUR
there is life!
CALAF
is this my life, father!
TIMUR
there is life!
CALAF
I suffer, father, I suffer!
TIMUR
Here there is no salvation!
CALAF
Life father is here! Turandot! Turandot! Turandot!
THE VOICE OF THE PRINCE OF PERSIA
Turandot!
PEOPLE
Ah!
TIMUR
want to die like this?
CALAF
Winning, father, for her beauty!
TIMUR
you end up like this?
CALAF
win gloriously in its beauty!
Sergej Larin
Click here for the lyrics of "Do not cry, Liu."
CALAFDo not cry, Liu! If in some distant day I smiled at you,
for that smile, my sweet child, hear me
your lord will be tomorrow, perhaps alone in the world ...
do not leave, take it away with you!
LIÙ
We die on the path of exile!
TIMUR
We shall die!
CALAF
exile easier for him! This, my poor Liu,
your little heart that does not fall, asks him who smiles no more!
TIMUR
Ah, for the last time!
LIÙ
Vinci dreadful spell!
PING, PONG, PANG
Life is so beautiful!
TIMUR
Have pity on me!
LIÙ
Liù Have mercy!
TIMUR
Take me, pity me, pity!
PING, PONG, PANG
not miss it!
CALAF
is I who ask mercy!
LIÙ
Lord, have mercy!
TIMUR
I can not tear myself away from you!
CALAF
No one listening! No more listening!
LIÙ
mercy on him!
PING, PONG, PANG
Catch it, take it away! Take it away! Up! Take away that fool!
CALAF
I see his shining face! I see! She calls me! She is there!
Your forgiveness asks him who smiles no more!
TIMUR
not want to break away from you! Mercy! Mercy!
I throw myself at your feet, groaning. Have mercy! Do not want my death!
PING, PONG, PANG
on, take away that fool! Hold that raging madman! You're mad! Life is beautiful!
LIÙ
Mercy! Lord have mercy, mercy!
PING, PONG, PANG
on, one last effort, let's drag him away! Let's get away, let's drag him away!
CALAF
Let me go! I suffered too much! Glory awaits me there.
human strength is not that that stops me. I follow my fate. Son
all a fever, are all a delusion! Every sense is a fierce martyrdom.
Every fiber of the soul has a voice that cries.
TIMUR
You walk on a poor heart that bleeds in vain for you!
No one has ever won, no one. On all the spiada lead.
I throw myself at your feet do not want my death!
PING, PONG, PANG
The face you see is illusion, the light that shines is fatal.
You play your destruction, you play the head. Death is the shadow of the Executioner there.
You run to ruin! Life does not play!
LIÙ
Mercy! Have mercy on us! If this is not enough to torment her,
sir, we are lost with you! Ah, let us fly, sir, ah! Let us fly!
PEOPLE
're already digging the grave for those who want to defy the love.
In the darkness there is, alas, your cruel fate!
CALAF
Turandot!
LIU, TIMUR, PING, PONG, PANG
Death!
CALAF
Turandot!
PING, PONG, PANG
and let it go! Needless to cry is in Sanskrit, Chinese, Mongolian! When the gong
death rejoices. Ah, ah, ah, ah!
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