O thou Turandot! Thou, ice princess!
With your stone-cold heart and your frozen smile.
Ye too shall melt one day!
'It will hurt when your blood starts flowing again.
'It will sting like a centipede sting.
And thou shalt weep, human tears,
ordinary human tears,
and like to see, just like me!
Princess Turandot, Judith Vindevogel
The beautiful princess Turandot has many suitors but does not want to marry. So she devises a ruse. Any prince who wants to marry her must first solve three riddles. If he solves them, he is lucky and becomes her husband. If he is wrong, she chops off his head as punishment, and without pardon. Fed up with this creepy game, the people beg the princess to choose and marry a sweet prince. But Turandot sticks to her decision and turns more and more into an ice princess.
