“There is no opera that so immediately speaks to everyone’s youth, even to those very young.”Įmperor (upper center), Turandot (middle center), and Prince Calaf (lower right) It premiered 117 years ago at Teatro Regio in Turin, northern Italy on 1 February 1896. The opera is “about young people caught in a difficult economic situation in desperate and conflicted love,” writes Speight Jenkins, General Director of the Seattle Opera. But we never let tragic love stories, beautifully told, die. This great opera should always remain one of the world’s most popular.

Love is lost-no tears. I’ve seen it before-I know this love will die. Whazat? Most people cry in all the right places. Rodolfo is the last in the room to realize that she is dead. And out in seat E-2, a pair of dry eyes watch. and then in the climax of Act IV, Mimi passes away after a long bout with consumption. She is ill, but their love is strong. Their future brims with hope and promise. Who does not remember an intense, dreamy, romantic love in one’s youth? A tear sneaks down from the corner of my right eye. Mimi is a seamstress and courtesan, and Rodolfo is a poor poet, living in the same cheap apartment house in Paris. In Act I, young Mimi and Rodolfo fall in love. Two trumpeters lead the parade by Cafe Momus in Act II. o Special Trumpet Sound Effects–Part Two.

o Special Trumpet Sound Effects–Part One.

o Know Your Horn: The Brassy, Sassy Trumpet.

o Do You Pass the Trumpeter's Breathing Test?.o Washington Music Educators Association.o Audition Materials – All-State & All-Northwest Honor Groups.

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