Puccini: Turandot

Puccini: Turandot

129 mins | Music | Nov. 7, 2009

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.

Puccini: Turandot

129 mins | Music | Nov. 7, 2009

Puccini: Turandot
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.
Producers The Metropolitan Opera, Decca
Original title Puccini: Turandot
Directors David Kneuss, Gary Halvorson
Writers Giuseppe Adami, Renato Simoni

Cast

Maria Guleghina

as Turandot

Marcello Giordani

as Calàf

Samuel Ramey

as Timur

Charles Anthony

as Emperador Altoum

Joshua Hopkins

as Ping

Tony Stevenson

as Pang

Eduardo Valdes

as Pong

Patricia Racette

as Self - Host

Keith Miller

as Mandarin

Antonio Demarco

as Executioner

Sasha Semin

as Prince of Persia

Anne Nonnemacher

as Handmaiden

Mary Hughes

as Handmaiden