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Puccini: Turandot / Maazel, Marton, Carreras, Ricciarelli

Puccini / Maazel / Vspo / Carreras / Ricciarelli
Release Date: 05/31/2011 
Label:  Arthaus Musik   Catalog #: 107319  
Composer:  Giacomo Puccini
Performer:  Helmut Wilhaber,  Katia Ricciarelli,  John-Paul Bogart,  Waldemar Kmentt,   ... 
Conductor:  Lorin Maazel
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Vienna State Opera Chorus,  Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Number of Discs: 1 
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Notes and Editorial Reviews

Giacomo Puccini TURANDOT Turandot – Eva Marton
Altoum – Waldemar Kmentt
Timur – John-Paul Bogart
Prince Calaf – José Carreras
Liu – Katia Ricciarelli
Pang – Helmut Wildhaber
Pong – Heinz Zednik
Ping – Robert Kerns
Un mandarino – Kurt Rydl
Il principe de Persia – Béla Perencz

Vienna Boys' Choir
Vienna State Opera Chorus and Orchestra
(chorus master: Helmuth Froschauer)
Lorin Maazel, conductor

Harold Prince, stage director
Timothy O'Brien and Tazeena Firth, set and costume designer
Ken Billington, lighting designer
Francis Fatrelle, choreographer

Recorded live from the Vienna State Opera, 1983.

Picture format: Read more NTSC 4:3
Sound format: PCM Stereo
Region code: 0 (worldwide)
Subtitles: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian
Running time: 139 mins
No. of DVDs: 1 (DVD 9) Read less

Works on This Recording

1. Turandot by Giacomo Puccini
Performer:  Helmut Wilhaber (Tenor), Katia Ricciarelli (Soprano), John-Paul Bogart (Bass),
Waldemar Kmentt (Tenor), Kurt Rydl (Bass), Heinz Zednik (Tenor),
Robert Kerns (Baritone), Eva Martón (Soprano), José Carreras (Tenor)
Conductor:  Lorin Maazel
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Vienna State Opera Chorus,  Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Period: Romantic 
Written: 1926; Italy 
 Date of Recording: 1983 
Venue:  Live  Vienna State Opera House 
Language: Italian 

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