Puccini: Turandot
MovieTitle | Puccini: Turandot |
User score | 5.5 |
Release date | Nov 7, 2009 |
Genre | Music |
Director | Gary Halvorson , David Kneuss |
Production country | United States of America |
Production companies | Decca, The Metropolitan Opera |
Run time | 129 min. |
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.