This reminds me of Disney's Mulan, but with a cool caveat - OPERA! What better way to introduce children to this unpopular but classical form of music?
TURANDOT - Il film completo di Mondo TV
I'm sad to say the great arias don't come in until about 35 minutes in - but even the animation is stirring and lovely, as is the music. So you can cut to the chase and start here: 
Many many moons ago, in China, Prince Calaf comes home from a long absence. Only his father recognizes him--and the loyal servant girl. An execution is about to take place - another prince has wooed the beautiful princess who refuses to marry, unless a man can answer her three riddles. The other prince, having failed the test to win her, literally "loses his head" over her. This should be a warning to Calaf, but no, one look at the icy Princess--the titular Turandot --and it's love at first sight. What is it with men and unattainable but beautiful women?
Calaf successfully answers all three riddles:
- What thing is reborn every night? - ‘Hope’
- What burns hot, but is not fire? - ‘Blood’
- What ice can make fire? ‘Turandot!’
Turandot still refuses to marry him.
That b^tch. How can she get away with that sh^t?
Calaf tries to appease her with a riddle he's confident she'll fail: “If you learn my name by dawn, I will forfeit my life.”
Will she learn his name? That old man and the servant girl might know... but will they tell Turandot?
This is opera (think "Soap Opera"), so you know some innocent will suffer and die. The question: will it end well for the prince, or for Turandot the b*tch, or maybe even for both?
Puccini (1858-1924) composed "Turandot" from 1920-1924, completing it with Franco Alfano 1925-1926.
I'd love to see more operas as animated cartoons, appealing to children. (Have they not had enough of Broadway tunes with girls straining their vocal chords to sing in "head voice"? Am I the only schmuck who hates every song in "Frozen?")
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