Un bel dì vedremo opera (28 May 1904 at the Teatro Grande in Brescia) it was sung by the famous Ukrainian soprano Solomiya Krushelnytska. It has been subsequently performed by many sopranos (including Geraldine Farrar, Maria Callas, and Renata Tebaldi among others), recently also by at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, where the original version of the opera was staged on 7 December 2016. In 1984 the pop musician Malcolm McLaren adapted the aria for his single "Madam Butterfly (Un bel di vedremo)", a Synth-pop remix of opera and 1980s R&B. The record reached No.13 in the UK Singles Chart and was included
Tu che di gel sei cinta Tu che di gel sei cinta "Tu che di gel sei cinta" ("You who are girdled with ice") is a soprano aria from act 3, scene 1, of Puccini's 1926 opera "Turandot". It is sung by Liù under torture, prior to her suicide. The words were written by Puccini himself while waiting for librettists Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni to deliver the next part of the libretto. When the librettists read them, they decided that they could not do better than that. In their work on "Turandot", Ashbrook and Powers suggest that Puccini's failure to complete the opera much beyond