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Turandot (14) - Night Vigil

"Turandot: Nessun dorma in Beijing tonight." With this edict, proclaimed dall'araldo begins the third act.
We are in the middle of the story and the night falls, with all its darkness and its threat of death. Turandot, the powerful, has given orders to search all the ways to steal the name of the foreigner, the death penalty for all. It is the darkest moment, and fear spreads like a contagion. The contagious nature of fear is made with exemplary immediacy and simplicity, without morals or judgments: so, and the crowd at the mercy of fear is like a field of waving grain, depending on wind direction, without any sense or critical thinking. The same people who just moments before had praised the prince winner ("Glory, glory, or winner! / May life smile!") Now insult ("You damned! Before we die / You ruthless, cruel thou ... ").
that the crowd is operated through fear is a reality as old as human society and the tyrants and dictators have always know this and take advantage of ( Elias Canetti we wrote about a wonderful book, "Crowds and Power", ed. Adelphi). We should remind ourselves more often and be careful!

dell'araldo The phrase ("Nessun dorma ...") is taken from the air Calaf most famous work, but the way it is reversed: what was supposed to be a night of fear and death can become waiting for hope and a prelude to love. The princess herself, even in the chill that still surrounds it, is invited to watch the stars that tremble with love and hope, "and the song ends with the assurance that dawn will bring victory and the rising of the sun heats and break the ice, delivering, through the heat of the first kiss, Turandot to a new life. Even those who know only superficially
Puccini's opera has certainly listened to and loved this song, which rightly became an anthem to hope and renewal and, as such, acts unconsciously, even if we do not stop to think about it, because the power Music acts directly on our parts and influences our emotional states of mind, without going through the head (for luck).
Note the reference to the stars. It seems obvious that there are the stars at night, but here, until now, has dominated the moon, the moon and go to the stars has a definite symbolic meaning. The stars and the moon are more than from the sun, because it does not directly affect the Earth, life insurance and fertility: they are more distant, their light has a function of orientation. Symbolically not belong to either the female or the male (what sex are angels?) Because they are above and beyond, as well as conflicts between the sexes. They represent a "direction", a new point of reference and guidance, strive for a higher spiritual vision which reconciles any conflict. This is not the deep impression which makes us contemplate the starry sky, making it seem small and insignificant our problems and looking forever?

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CALAF
Nessun dorma! Nessun dorma!
Even you, o princess in your cold room
watch the stars that tremble with love and hope ...
But my secret is hidden within me, my name no one will know!
No, no, your mouth will tell you, when the light shines ...
And my kiss will dissolve the silence that makes you mine.

WOMEN
His name no one will know ...
And we must, alas, die, die!

CALAF
this night! Set, stars!
I will win! I win!