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Turandot [videorecording (DVD)] / Puccini ; The Metropolitan Opera.

by Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924.

DVD 792.542 T929mo Perf

Metropolitan Opera HD live.

[videorecording (DVD)] /

1 videodisc (129 min.) : digital sd., col. ; 1 booklet (14 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.) 12 cm.

Opera in three acts ; Libretto by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni after the play by Carlo Gozzi ; The last duet and finale completed by Francesco Alfano.

Bonus feature: Backstage at the Met with Maria Guleghina, Marcello Giordani and Charles Anthony ; host: Patricia Racette.

Program notes and synopsis in English, German and French in container.

Recorded during live HD transmission from the Metropolitan Opera, Nov. 7, 2009.

Sung in Italian with subtitles in English, French, German, Spanish and Chinese.

Production, Franco Zeffirelli ; set designer, Franco Zeffirelli ; costume designer, Anna Anni, Dada Saligeri, choreographer, Chiang Ching; stage director, David Kneuss; video director Gary Halvorson.

Maria Guleghina (Turandot) ; Marina Poplavskaya (Liù) ; Marcello Giordani (Calif) ; Samuel Ramey (Timur) ; Charles Anthony (Emperor) ; Joshua Hopkins (Ping) ; Tony Stevenson (Pang) ; Eduardo Valdes (Pong) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra ; Metropolitan Opera Chorus ; Metropolitan Opera Ballet ; Andris Nelsons, conductor.

Set in Peking, Princess Turandot will become the bride of the royal suitor who can successfully answer three riddles. Unsuccessful suitors lose not only the hand of the princess, but their heads as well.

Filmed performances.

Classical/Opera/Choral.

Adami, Giuseppe, 1878-1946.

Simoni, Renato, 1875-1952.

Alfano, Franco, 1875-1954.

Guleghina, Maria.

Poplavskaia͡, Marina, 1977-

Giordani, Marcello.

Anthony, Charles, 1929-

Hopkins, Joshua, 1978-

Nelsons, Andris.

Zeffirelli, Franco.

Saligeri, Dada.

Chiang, Ching, dancer.

Halvorson, Gary.

Gozzi, Carlo, 1720-1806. Turandot.

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

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