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In questa reggia ('In this palace') is an aria from Giacomo Puccini's opera Turandot. It takes place in Scene Two of the Second Act, and is sung mostly by the Princess Turandot.

In the aria, Turandot explains that the reason why the three riddles were conceived was as a test for any prince who might want to marry her. She explains that in the same palace, countless generations ago (thousands of years ago), a reigning virgin Princess Lo-u-Ling, was conquered by the King of the Tartars, ravished and murdered. In particular, she dwells upon the Princess' final crying out and her moment of death at the hands of a man. Based on that memory alone, and the concept of that crying out having carried down through the many generations down to herself, Turandot has resolved to avenge that death on all men who would attempt to marry her. She warns the prince that if he fails on any one of the three riddles, he will die. The climax of this aria is on the final occurance of the word "grido" (outcry or crying out) and clearly Turandot is reliving and personifying the last moments of her ancestor, its outrage and its long-awaited vengeance.

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