NNTT at home - Turandot

In ancient Peking. Outside the Imperial Palace, the exiled King Timur of Tartary and the slave-girl Liu are reunited with Prince Calaf, Timur's long-lost son. Princess Turandot appears in front of the public and wordlessly orders the execution of her suitor Prince of Persia. Anyone seeking to marry her must answer her three riddles, and he has failed. Prince Calaf, transfixed by her beauty, decides to try his fortune with her.

The three ministers of state, Ping, Pang, and Pong lament the fate of the foreign princes who have lost their lives. The crowd assembles to watch Calaf's challenge, and Turandot declares that if he fails in answering the riddles, he will be executed. However, Calaf answers all three riddles correctly. Turandot is shaken and begs her father, Emperor Altoum, not to give her away to this unknown Prince. Calaf in turn offers her a riddle of his own: if she can discover his name by dawn, he will offer her his life.

At Turandot's command, people search all night for the stranger's name while Calaf sings his resolve in the aria "Nessun Dorma" (None shall sleep). Timur and Liu are captured and brought to Turandot. Liu declares that she alone knows the Prince's identity and then stabs herself. When the crowd leaves and Turandot is left alone with Calaf, he reveals his love and kisses her. Finally, she succumbs to him, declaring that the stranger's name is "Love".