Puccini: Turandot (complete opera recorded in 2017)

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GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Turandot (complete opera recorded in 2017)
Teatro alla Scala / Nina Stemme, Aleksandrs Antonenko, Maria Agresta, Alexander Tsymbaluk / Riccardo Chailly(cond)

[ Decca Music Group DVD / DVD ]

Release Date: Sunday 10 September 2017

Rated: G - Films, Videos, and Publications Classification Act 1993Suitable 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

"it is a measure of Lehnhoff's authority that you never question his choices...Chailly digs deep into Puccini's score...And the La Scala orchestra plays as if their life depended on it...Stemme is in the great tradition of Birgit Nilsson's Turandot, though there is a touching uncertainty around her Princess too...Agresta's Liù is one of the most appealing on record." BBC Opera Choice June 2017

Turandot Trailer (Teatro alla Scala)