Puccini:turandot

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Cat No: 750008

Release Date: 12 January 2015

Label: Orfeo D'or / Orfeo - D'or

Packaging Type: Jewel Case

No of Units: 2

Barcode: 4011790757223

Genres: Soundtrack Music Concert

Release Date: 26 May 2016

Label: C Major - Dvd / C Major Entertainment

Packaging Type: Blu-Ray Packaging

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 814337015015

Genres: Soundtrack Music Concert

Release Date: 09 January 2015

Label: C Major - Dvd / C Major Entertainment

Packaging Type: Blu-Ray Packaging

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 814337013158

Genres: Soundtrack Music Concert

Release Date: 26 May 2016

Label: C Major - Dvd / C Major Entertainment

Packaging Type: DVD Case

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 814337015008

Genres: Soundtrack Music Concert

Release Date: 11 January 2015

Label: Dynamic - Dvd / Dynamic

Packaging Type: Blu-Ray Packaging

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 8007144557645

Genres: Soundtrack Music Concert

Description
Mention Giacomo Puccini's name and opera-lovers all over the world will think of grand opera and passionate love stories. One of the world's most famous arias comes from the composer's final opera, Turandot: "Nessun dorma" - none shall sleep because by morning the Chinese princess is determined to have discovered the name of the unknown prince. The work is remarkable for its Chinese local colour, its opulent crowd scenes, its powerful choruses and its characters overwhelmed by their emotions. Enthusiastically acclaimed by its audiences, the present production combines spectacular and touching scenes on the Bregenz Festival's vast lakeside stage.

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Turandot is Giacomo Puccini's tenth and last opera. It took the composer almost four years to complete, from the beginning of 1921 to 1924. Just days before his death on 29th November 1924, Puccini was still working on it. The opera was left incomplete and an ending was written, on Arturo Toscanini's suggestion, by the composer Franco Alfano (1876 - 1954). From a musical point of view, Turandot is the most modern and innovative of Puccini's operas, encapsulating the hallmarks of Puccini's style and skilfully blending exoticism, sentimentality, intimate lyricism, grandiosity and grotesque overtones. Puccini's extraordinary orchestration skills are applied here with unprecedented care. The use of large instrumental forces translates into new tone-colour effects which, together with this production's stunning sets and sumptuous costumes, confirms Turandot as one of Puccini's most powerful and original operas.