Court ladies hush the crowd before a parade of the ghosts of executed lovers like the Prince of Persia, and the proclamation that "on this night none shall sleep in Peking" precedes this opera's most famous aria, "Nessun dorma."
At the beginning of this work, a crowd invokes the "pallid face" of the moon and asks it to hurry, while a chorus of servants proclaims that "work is never lacking." Later in this work, three men enter with lanterns and address the tiger, "grand marshal of the heavens," before bidding farewell to the "divine race." Court ladies hush the crowd before a parade of the ghosts of executed lovers like the Prince of Persia, and the proclamation that "on this night none shall sleep in Peking" precedes this opera's most famous aria, "Nessun dorma." For 10 points, name this opera about the exiled prince Calàf and the title Chinese princess by Giacomo Puccini.
At the beginning of this work, a crowd invokes the "pallid face" of the moon and asks it to hurry, while a chorus of servants proclaims that "work is never lacking."
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