Puccini: Turandot (complete opera recorded in 2017) BLU-RAY
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GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Turandot (complete opera recorded in 2017) BLU-RAY
Teatro alla Scala / Nina Stemme, Aleksandrs Antonenko, Maria Agresta, Alexander Tsymbaluk / Riccardo Chailly(cond)
[ Decca Music Group Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc ]
Release Date: Wednesday 10 May 2017
Suitable for General Audiences
TURANDOT, the first BD/DVD of a cycle of the complete Puccini operas in partnership with La Scala and conducted by Chailly. Quality casts and sumptuous productions guarantee a new benchmark for these classic operas. Nina Stemme assumes the title role with Maria Agresta as Liu with Aleksandrs Antonenko as the heroic Calaf.
"The set and costumes (Raimund Bauer and Andrea Schmidt-Futterer) are a feast for the eye...[Stemme] delivers 'In questa reggia' with burnished tone, culminating in a gleaming top C...Tsymbalyuk is touching in Timur's lament for Liù, and the masks are well characterised...A firm recommendation for this eminently watchable offering from the theatre of the opera's premiere." Gramophone Blu-ray of the Month April 2017
"What is the most outstanding feature of this recording of Giacomo Puccini's opera Turandot? Is it the vividly recorded sound under the expert baton of conductor Riccardo Chailly? How about those well-miked singers, who manage to sound far better than they did in a recent Metropolitan Opera production of Turandot? Or the staging and lighting at Italy's La Scala, so lush and regal as to be almost overwhelming (particularly when viewed on a 4K television)? Perhaps the excellent acting, judiciously understated as when Aleksandrs Antoninko didn't grandstand during the famous "Nessun Dorma"?" AudAud Five Stars
