Year: 1987
Runtime: 132 mins
Language: Italian
Directors: Franco Zeffirelli, Kirk Browning
Franco Zeffirelli’s celebrated staging of Puccini’s Turandot, captured live at the Metropolitan Opera in April 1987, features Éva Marton in the title role opposite Plácido Domingo as Calaf, with Leona Mitchell as Liù, Paul Plishka as Timur, and Hugues Cuenod as the Emperor Altoum. James Levine conducts the performance.
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