Love is silly

I went to watch the opera Turandot, the story was in Peking, China, but it is a Italy opera, so most of them weared a mask.

The story was about if any prince seeking to marry Princess Turandot must answer three riddles - and if he fails, he will be executed. A handsome youth, Prince Calaf, smitten with the princess's beauty, but Turandot has turned against all men, determining that none shall ever possess her.

She poses her first question: what is born each night and dies each dawn? Hope, Calaf answers correctly. Unnerved, Turandot continues: what flickers red and warm like a flame, yet is not fire? Blood, replies Calaf after a moment's pause. Shaken, Turandot delivers her third riddle: what is like ice but burns? A tense silence prevails until Calaf cries Turandot! The crowd gives thanks to the triumph. Calaf generously offers Turandot a riddle of his own: if she can learn his name by dawn, he will forfeit his life.

Immediately a proclamation is made: on pain of death, no one in Peking shall sleep until Turandot learns the stranger's name. The soldiers drag in a slave girl, Liu and his father, Timur and threaten Calaf with daggers. Liu cries out that she alone knows the stranger's identity. Though tortured, she remains silent and only reveals Love as the secret of such endurance. With the torture intensified, Liu snatches a dagger from a soldier and kills herself.

Turandot remains alone to confront Calaf, who at length takes her in his arms, forcing her to kiss him. Feeling physical passion for the first time, Turandot weeps. The prince, now sure of his victory, tells her his name. As the people hail the emperor, Turandot approaches his throne, announcing that his name is - Love.

When I saw that slave girl, Liu died for her master for love, I cried. I don't understand why many princes would died by Turandot's beauty. Even when Liu died for him, Prince Calaf still want to win Turandot's heart. love is silly