Puccini: Turandot - Teatro alla Scala

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Puccini: Turandot - Teatro alla Scala (2015)

Directed by Nikolaus Lehnhoff, Riccardo Chailly

Music · 2h 16m

Visually this is a gripping production which captures the drama of this opera perfectly. It's downright exciting! and I found the singing, acting, and orchestral playing reasonably fine. I found only one major problem with it, a problem that kept Puccini for quite a few years. Turandot has been looking for an opportunity to kill Calif and Calif has singlemindedly tried to get Turandot to love and wed him focusing on her and ignoring a better looking girl who loves him truly. The problem is how to get the audience to applaud the match once Calif gets his wish. Puccini couldn't figure out how to do it. The traditional quick ending doesn't do it, and Berio's attempt is longer , tries its best, but ends up making it plain this is one wierd couple.

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Cast

Nina Maria Stemme Turandot Aleksandrs Antonenko Calaf Maria Agresta Liu Alexander Tsymbalyuk Timur
A
Angelo Veccia Ping
R
Roberto Covatta Pang
B
Blagoj Nacoski Pong
C
Carlo Bosi Altoum
G
Gianluca Breda Mandarin Riccardo Chailly Self - Conductor
O
Orchestra della Scala

Crew

Director
Nikolaus Lehnhoff, Riccardo Chailly
Writer
Giuseppe Adami, Renato Simoni, Giacomo Puccini
Director of Photography
Patrizia Carmine
Original Music Composer
Giacomo Puccini

Details

Release date
2015-05-01
Runtime
2h 16m
Genres
Music
Original language
IT
Spoken languages
Italian
Production
Decca