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Title Turandot / Puccini ; The Metropolitan Opera presents.

Publication Info. London, England : Decca, [2011]
©2011

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Description 1 videodisc (129 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description digital
optical
mixed
LPCM
video file
DVD video
Series Metropolitan Opera HD live
Metropolitan Opera HD live.
System Details DVD-9; soundtracks in DTS 5.1, LPCM stereo; aspect ratio 16:9; filmed in HD.
Note Opera in three acts; libretto by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni after the play by Carlo Gozzi; the last duet and finale completed by Francesco Alfano.
Performer Maria Guleghina (Turandot) ; Marina Poplavskaya (Liù) ; Marcello Giordani (Calif) ; Samuel Ramey (Timur) ; Charles Anthony (Emperor) ; Joshua Hopkins (Ping) ; Tony Stevenson (Pang) ; Eduardo Valdes (Pong) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra ; Metropolitan Opera Chorus ; Metropolitan Opera Ballet ; Andris Nelsons, conductor.
Credits Production, Franco Zeffirelli ; set designer, Franco Zeffirelli ; costume designer, Anna Anni, Dada Saligeri, choreographer, Chiang Ching; stage director, David Kneuss; video director Gary Halvorson.
Event Recorded during live HD transmission from the Metropolitan Opera, Nov. 7, 2009.
Note Bonus feature : Backstage at the Met with Maria Guleghina, Marcello Giordani and Charles Anthony ; host: Patricia Racette.
Program notes and synopsis (14 p. : ill.) in container.
Summary Set in Peking, Princess Turandot will become the bride of the royal suitor who can successfully answer three riddles. Unsuccessful suitors lose not only the hand of the princess, but their heads as well.
Language Sung in Italian with subtitles in English, French, German, Spanish and Chinese.
Genre/Form Operas.
Operas.
Video recordings.
Video recordings.
Added Author Gozzi, Carlo, 1720-1806. Turandot.
Adami, Giuseppe, 1878-1946, librettist.
Simoni, Renato, 1875-1952, librettist.
Alfano, Franco, 1875-1954.
Guleghina, Maria, performer.
Poplavskai͡a, Marina, 1977- performer.
Giordani, Marcello, performer.
Anthony, Charles, 1929-2012.
Ramey, Samuel, performer.
Hopkins, Joshua, 1978- performer.
Stevenson, Tony (Tenor), performer.
Valdes, Eduardo (Tenor), performer.
Nelsons, Andris, conductor.
Zeffirelli, Franco.
Anni, Anna.
Saligeri, Dada.
Chiang, Ching (Dancer)
Kneuss, David.
Halvorson, Gary.
Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924. Turandot.
Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.), performer.
Standard No. 044007434260
Music No. B0015735-09 Decca