The final work by the beloved Italian composer, Puccini, is well-known to modern audiences thanks to opera’s most famous aria, “Nessun Dorma”which has been rendered by everyone from Luciano Pavarotti to Aretha Franklin and Jackie Evanco. In this fantasy fable setting filled with exotic splendor, Prince Calaf falls in love at first sight with the Ice Princess of Turandot. She requires all her suitors to answer three riddles correctly, all who fail are beheaded. The grandest GO opera production to date ends the 10th Anniversary season.