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It is no secret that Giacomo Puccini’s opera Turandot (1926), the source text behind New York-based sculptor Covey Gong’s solo exhibition at SculptureCenter, presents a mythic and embellished vision of dynastic China. The opera’s narrative, in which a princess who poses riddles to vet suitors is bested at her own game, comes from Haft Peykar, an epic poem by the twelfth-century Persian poet Nizami Ganjavi. This was reworked into a short story by an eighteenth-century French orientalist and adapted for the stage in Germany in 1801 before making its way into the Italian composer’s imagination. Puccini never visited China; his posthumously-produced opera illustrates something akin to what artist Astria Suparak, in her ongoing critique of science fiction cinema, calls “Asian futures without Asians.” One need only to swap the word “futures” with “pasts” or “legends.” ....
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Today.Az - President Ilham Aliyev, First Lady Mehriban Aliyeva participate in presentation of Crescent Bay project and opening of Crescent Mall today.az - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from today.az Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.