Product Overview
PUCCINI: Turandot / OPERA IN THREE ACTS / LIBRETTO: GIUSEPPE ADAMI & RENATO SIMONI / ORCHESTRA, CHOIR, CORPS DE BALLET AND TECHNICIANS OF THE ARENA DI VERONA / Conductor: GIULIANO CARELLA Chorus Master: GIOVANNI ANDREOLI / DVD
Format: NTSC
Run time: 128 Minutes
UPC: 3760115300668
- Aspect Ratio : 1.78:1
- MPAA rating : Unrated (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions : 5.55 x 0.39 x 7.52 inches; 3.49 Ounces
- Item model number : BELC66DVD
- Director : Andy Sommer, Paolo Facincani
- Media Format : Multiple Formats, Classical, Color, NTSC, Widescreen
- Release date : November 15, 2011
- Actors : Salvatore Licitra, Maria Guleghina, Luiz-Ottavio Faria, Tamar Iveri, Carlo Bosi
- Dubbed: : None
- Subtitles: : English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese
- Producers : François Duplat
- Studio : Bel Air Classiques
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
Maria Guleghina, Savatore Licitra, Carlo Bosi, Luiz-Ottavio Faria, Leonardo Lopez Linares, Gianluca Bocchino, Saverio Fiore, Giuliano Pelizon, Angel Harkatz Kaufman, and Tamar Iveri star in this Area di Verona production of the Puccini opera.
Turandot (Italian: [turanˈdɔt] see below) is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to a libretto in Italian by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni, the music completed by Franco Alfano in 1926 after Puccini's death.
The opera is set in China and follows the Prince Calaf, who falls in love with the cold Princess Turandot. In order to win her hand in marriage, a suitor must solve three riddles, with a wrong answer resulting in their execution. Calaf passes the test, but Turandot refuses to marry him. He offers her a way out: if she is able to guess his name before dawn the next day, he will accept death.
Puccini left the opera unfinished at the time of his death in 1924; Franco Alfano completed it in 1926.
