This reminds me of Disney's Mulan, but with a cool caveat - OPERA! What better way to introduce children to this unpopular but classical form of music?
TURANDOT - Il film completo di Mondo TV
I'm sad to say the great arias don't come in until about 35 minutes in - but even the animation is stirring and lovely, as is the music. So you can cut to the chase and start here:
Many many moons ago, in China, Prince Calaf comes home from a long absence. Only his father recognizes him--and the loyal servant girl. An execution is about to take place - another prince has wooed the beautiful princess who refuses to marry, unless a man can answer her three riddles. The other prince, having failed the test to win her, literally "loses his head" over her. This should be a warning to Calaf, but no, one look at the icy Princess--the titular Turandot --and it's love at first sight. What is it with men and unattainable but beautiful women?
Calaf successfully answers all three riddles:
- What thing is reborn every night? - ‘Hope’
- What burns hot, but is not fire? - ‘Blood’
- What ice can make fire? ‘Turandot!’
Turandot still refuses to marry him.
That b^tch. How can she get away with that sh^t?
Calaf tries to appease her with a riddle he's confident she'll fail: “If you learn my name by dawn, I will forfeit my life.”
Will she learn his name? That old man and the servant girl might know... but will they tell Turandot?
This is opera (think "Soap Opera"), so you know some innocent will suffer and die. The question: will it end well for the prince, or for Turandot the b*tch, or maybe even for both?
Puccini (1858-1924) composed "Turandot" from 1920-1924, completing it with Franco Alfano 1925-1926.
I'd love to see more operas as animated cartoons, appealing to children. (Have they not had enough of Broadway tunes with girls straining their vocal chords to sing in "head voice"? Am I the only schmuck who hates every song in "Frozen?")
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Oprah is sooo not for children, because it is mostly violent and depression and has a horrible ending. If there is anything good in it then it's not an Opera, I think that it's an opereta, still... doesn't sound like something for kids.
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Have you read German fairy tales?
The original Little Mermaid is a downer.
The violence in Hansel and Gretel, and in the original Cinderella - wow!
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Not German fairy tales, but I did read the original Little Mermaid and Cinderella. Little Mermaid isn't a downer - it's just Christian. As for Cinderella, Grimm Bothers stories were not meant for children, but as cautionary folk takes, forget what Disney did to it and to the Little Mermaid.
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Little Mermaid lost her voice - forever - and didn't get the prince, either, in the original.
Scare tactics and horror stories seemed to be popular parenting devices.
But I grew up on a farm, with mostly German DNA, and we were expected to be stoic about death and bad things that happen.
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The Little Mermaid did get a chance at a human soul, which is better than a prince. Also every time a child does what his parents want him to, her waiting time to get a soul grows shorter. Basically, the end meaning reinforces the values of being good and going to heaven. It's not a German story though, it's from Denmark.
the scary part is learning that your actions have consequences so it makes sense.
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