Organization

Singer

Soprano

Maria Guleghina

Turandot

Giovanna Casolla

Bass

Carlo Cigni

Timur

Luiz-Ottavio Faria

Tenor

Marco Berti

Calaf

Salvatore Licitra

Tamar Iveri

Liù

Fiorenza Cedolins

Carlo Bosi

The Emperor Altoum

Antonello Ceron

Baritone

Leonardo López Linares ​

Ping

Filippo Bettoschi

Gianluca Bocchino

Pong

Aldo Orsolini

Saverio Fiore

Pang

Luca Casalin

Giuliano Pelizon

A Mandarin

Nicolò Ceriani

Conductor

Giuliano Carella

Plácido Domingo

Stage director

Franco Zeffirelli

Set designer

Lighting designer

Paolo Mazzon

Choreographer

Maria Grazia Garofoli

Costume designer

Wada Emi

Angel Harkatz Kaufman

The Prince of Persia

Fondazione Arena di Verona

Verona

Italy

Teatro Filarmonico

Turandot by G. Puccini, from Arena di Verona, 2010. Directed by Franco Zeffirelli, conductor Giuliano Carella, starring Salvatore Licitra, Tamar Iveri, Carlo Bosi, Leonardo Lopez Linares, Maria Grazia Garofoli, Giuliano Pelizon, Angel Harkatz Kaufman, Gianluca Bocchino and Luiz-octavio Faria. Performed in Italian and subtitled in English, German, Spanish, French and Italian.

The Arena di Verona Festival honors Italian stage director Franco Zeffirelli, and his legendary production of Turandot.

Interpreted within the sumptuous surroundings of Verona Arena, this Puccini's masterpiece tells the story of a princess whose beauty was only comparable to her cruelty. She will only marry a prince capable of solving her riddles, but if he fails, he will be beheaded...

For this edition, the lyrical festival invites the russian soprano Maria Guleghina who proved a brilliant Turandot. She took to the stage with Salvatore Licitra's trump card is his imposingly radiant tenor voice of wich he remains in sovereign control, and the soprano Tamar Iveri is a beautiful and sensitive Liù.

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Crew