Puccini: Turandot

Also available on Blu-ray Performed on the Bregenz Festival's vast lakeside stage, this production of Turandot is captivating and spectacular. Giacomo Puccini's final opera is set in China and is an interesting love story that is sure to enrapture audiences. Puccini died before he completed the opera left instructions that Riccardo Zandonai should finish the work but Franco Alfano was the one to complete the third act. Paolo Carignani conducts the Wiener Symphoniker with the staging done by Marco Arturo Marelli. Leading the cast are Mlada Khudoley, Riccardo Massi, Guanqun Yu, and Michael Ryssov. Giacomo Puccini TURANDOT Turandot - Mlada Khudoley Altoum - Manuel von Senden Timur - Michail Ryssov Calaf - Riccardo Massi Liù - Guanqun Yu Ping - Andrè Schuen Pang - Taylan Reinhard Pong - Cosmin Ifrim Un mandarino - Yasushi Hirano Prague Philharmonic Chorus (chorus master: Lukáš Vasilek) Bregenz Festival Chorus (chorus master: Benjamin Lack) Vienna Symphony Orchestr