Year: 2009
Runtime: 129 mins
Language: Italian
Directors: Gary Halvorson, David Kneuss
Franco Zeffirelli’s celebrated staging of Puccini’s final opera, Turandot, presented at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, brings the fairy‑tale world of a mythical China to the screen. In this Live in HD performance, soprano Maria Guleghina sings the title role while Marcello Giordani appears as the unknown prince Calaf. Marina Poplavskaya and bass Samuel Ramey share key supporting parts, and Andris Nelsons makes his Met debut as conductor.
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