Organization

Arena di Verona Opera Festival

Costume designer

Emi Wada

Set designer

Franco Zeffirelli

Singer

Tenor

Yusif Eyvazov

Calaf

Soprano

Anna Netrebko

Turandot

Conductor

Marco Armiliato

Francesco Ivan Ciampa

Plácido Domingo

Choreographer

Maria Grazia Garofoli

Oksana Dyka

Carlo Bosi

The Emperor Altoum

Chris Merritt

Bass

Ferruccio Furlanetto

Timur

Riccardo Fassi

Murat Karahan

Yonghoon Lee

Maria Teresa Leva

Liù

Ruth Iniesta

Baritone

Gezim Myshketa

Ping

Biagio Pizzuti

Matteo Mezzaro

Pong

Riccardo Rados

Pang

Youngjun Park

A Mandarin

Lighting designer

Paolo Mazzon

Samuele Simoncini

Stage director

Fondazione Arena di Verona

Others

Coro della Fondazione Arena di Verona

Orchestra

Orchestra dell'Arena di Verona

Coro di voci bianche Accademia Lirica di Verona

Ballet and Technicians of the Arena di Verona Foundation

Teatro Romano

Verona

Italy

In the program

Turandot
'Dramma lirico' in three acts by Giacomo Puccini (1858 – 1924)
Libretto by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni after Carlo Gozzi
Premiered in Milan, Teatro alla Scala, April 25, 1926

Registration: August 10, 2022 - Arena di Verona
Achievement :
Duration: 02:15

Arena di Verona

At the Arena di Verona, the legendary Franco Zeffirelli presents a sensational production of Puccini’s Turandot, conducted by Marco Armiliato and performed by a stellar cast including Anna Netrebko in the title role!

Set to an Italian libretto by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni—and posthumously completed by Franco Alfano—this three-act opera unfolds amid the grandiose backdrop of medieval Beijing. The curtain rises upon the beautiful yet cold-hearted Princess Turandot, who sets a challenge to the noblemen of the country: she will marry the one who can successfully solve the three riddles she devises. If they fail, they must pay with their lives. An Unknown Prince (Calaf) arrives at the scene, and attempts the riddle ceremony against the advice of his father and his guide, Liú—with tenor Yusif Eyvazov providing a powerful performance of the beloved Nessun dorma in the role of Calaf. Having instantly fallen in love with the princess, performed by star soprano Netrebko, the prince succeeds and sets her a challenge of his own…

Anna Netrebko appears courtesy of Deutsche Grammophon.

Turandot
'Dramma lirico' in three acts by Giacomo Puccini (1858 – 1924)
Libretto by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni based on Carlo Gozzi
Premiered in Milan, Teatro alla Scala, April 25, 1926

Turandot Puccini

Public

Approved

Production booklet

Further reading