Turandot - Puccini - Live from Verona

Turandot - Puccini - Live from Verona

Music | June 23, 2011

The Arena di Verona Festival honors Italian stage director Franco Zeffirelli, and his legendary production of Turandot. Interpreted within the sumptuous surroundings of Verona Arena, this Puccini's masterpiece tells the story of a princess whose beauty was only comparable to her cruelty. She will only marry a prince capable of solving her riddles, but if he fails, he will be beheaded... For this edition, the lyrical festival invites the russian soprano Maria Guleghina who proved a brilliant Turandot. She took to the stage with Salvatore Licitra's trump card is his imposingly radiant tenor voice of wich he remains in sovereign control, and the soprano Tamar Iveri is a beautiful and sensitive Liù.

Turandot - Puccini - Live from Verona

Music | June 23, 2011

Turandot - Puccini - Live from Verona
The Arena di Verona Festival honors Italian stage director Franco Zeffirelli, and his legendary production of Turandot. Interpreted within the sumptuous surroundings of Verona Arena, this Puccini's masterpiece tells the story of a princess whose beauty was only comparable to her cruelty. She will only marry a prince capable of solving her riddles, but if he fails, he will be beheaded... For this edition, the lyrical festival invites the russian soprano Maria Guleghina who proved a brilliant Turandot. She took to the stage with Salvatore Licitra's trump card is his imposingly radiant tenor voice of wich he remains in sovereign control, and the soprano Tamar Iveri is a beautiful and sensitive Liù.
Producers
Original title Turandot - Puccini - Live from Verona
Directors Andy Sommer, Franco Zeffirelli
Writers Carlo Gozzi, Giuseppe Adami, Renato Simoni

Cast

Maria Guleghina

as Princess Turandot

Carlo Bosi

as Emperor Altoum

Salvatore Licitra

as Prince Calaf

Tamar Iveri

as Liù

Giuliano Carella

as Conductor