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Puccini: Turandot

Puccini: Turandot

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Status

Released

Release Date

Nov 7, 2009

Runtime

2h 9m

Genres

Music

User Score

55%

Original Title

Puccini: Turandot

Production Companies

Decca, The Metropolitan Opera

Director

Gary Halvorson

Description

Franco Zeffirelli's magnificient staging of Puccini's final opera - a fairy tale set in a mythical China - is one of the most popular in the Met repertory. In this Live in HD production, Maria Guleghina takes on the title role and Marcello Giordani is Calaf, the unknown prince. Marina Poplavskaya and Samuel Ramey co-star, and Andris Nelsons conducts in his Met debut.