Film
Metropolitan Opera Live: Turandot
- Certificate
- 12A
- Running Time
- 182 mins
In ancient Peking, loveless Princess Turandot has had just about enough of chaps. She’s decided that any potential suitor must answer three riddles correctly or be put to death. When smitten Prince Calaf succeeds, our heroine goes into a bit of a decline. So Calaf magnanimously offers a proposal of his own. If she can guess his real name before dawn, he will forfeit his own life.
Franco Zeffirelli‘s production of Puccini’s final opera returns to the Met, with soprano Christine Goerketaking in the title role and tenor Roberto Aronica as Calaf. Yep, this is the only opera known to all football fans, though they should perhaps be warned that they’ve got a bum-numbing wait until Act III to hear Nessun Dorma.
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