Editing Turandot (section)

==Roles==
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|+{{sronly|Roles, voice types, premier cast}}
!Role
![[Voice type]]
!Premiere cast, 25 April 1926<br>Conductor: [[Arturo Toscanini]]
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|Princess Turandot
|[[dramatic soprano]]
|[[Rosa Raisa]]
|-
|The Emperor Altoum, ''her father''
|[[tenor]]
|[[Francesco Dominici (tenor)|Francesco Dominici]]
|-
|Timur, ''the deposed King of Tartary''
|[[bass (voice type)|bass]]
|Carlo Walter
|-
|The Unknown Prince (Calaf), ''his son''
|tenor
|[[Miguel Fleta]]
|-
|Liù,{{refn|group=note|Note that the [[grave accent]] (`) in the name ''Liù'' is not a [[pinyin]] tone mark indicating a falling tone, but an Italian diacritic that marks [[Stress (linguistics)|stress]], indicating that the word is pronounced {{IPA|it|ˈlju|}} or {{IPA|it|liˈu|}} rather than {{IPA|it|ˈliːu|}}. If the name is analyzed as an authentic Mandarin-language name, it is likely to be one of several characters pronounced ''Liu'' (with different tones), commonly used as surnames: {{lang|zh|[[Wikt:刘|刘]]}} ''Liú'' {{IPA|cmn|ljôu|}} or {{lang|zh|[[Wikt:柳|柳]]}} ''Liǔ'' {{IPA|cmn|ljòu|}}. [http://newnrch.digital.ntu.edu.tw/archive/DOFiles/pdf/00/02/25/55/cca100007-mu-bk0207-0001-t.pdf A translation of the song guide] hosted by the [[National Taiwan University]] refers to her as {{lang|zh|柳兒}} ''Liǔ ér''.}} ''a slave girl''
|[[soprano]]
|[[Maria Zamboni]]
|-
|Ping, ''Lord Chancellor''
|[[baritone]]
|[[Giacomo Rimini]]
|-
|Pang, ''Majordomo''
|tenor
|[[Emilio Venturini]]
|-
|Pong, ''Head chef of the Imperial Kitchen''
|tenor
|[[Giuseppe Nessi]]
|-
|A Mandarin
|baritone
|{{Interlanguage link|Aristide Baracchi|it}}
|-
|The Prince of Persia
|tenor
|Not named in the original program
|-
|The Executioner (Pu-Tin-Pao)
|silent
|Not named in the original program
|-
| colspan="3"|''Imperial guards, the executioner's men, boys, priests, mandarins, dignitaries, eight wise men,<br>Turandot's handmaids, soldiers, standard-bearers, musicians, ghosts of suitors, crowd''
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