Puccini: Turandot / Maazel, Marton, Carreras, Ricciarelli [DVD]
Conductor: Lorin Maazel | Composer(s): Giacomo Puccini | Director: Harold Prince | Performer(s): Eva Marton, Jose Carreras, Helmut Wilhaber, Katia Ricciarelli, John-Paul Bogart, Waldemar Kmentt | Orchestra/Ensemble: Vienna State Opera Chorus, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra | Label: Arthaus Musik | DVD | Picture format: 4:3 | Sound format: PCM Stereo | File host: Share-online.biz | 5% recovery record + 1 .rev file | Run time: 139 mins | 8.64 GB
Language(s): Italian | Subtitle(s): English, French, German, Spanish, Italian
Conductor: Lorin Maazel | Composer(s): Giacomo Puccini | Director: Harold Prince | Performer(s): Eva Marton, Jose Carreras, Helmut Wilhaber, Katia Ricciarelli, John-Paul Bogart, Waldemar Kmentt | Orchestra/Ensemble: Vienna State Opera Chorus, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra | Label: Arthaus Musik | DVD | Picture format: 4:3 | Sound format: PCM Stereo | File host: Share-online.biz | 5% recovery record + 1 .rev file | Run time: 139 mins | 8.64 GB
Language(s): Italian | Subtitle(s): English, French, German, Spanish, Italian
From the Vienna State Opera Arthaus presents a timeless document of great opera. Lorin Maazel and a dream cast of distinguished singers, among them the young Eva Marton and José Carreras in his mid-thirties, perform a celebrated staging of Puccini’s Turandot. Puccini’s last opera tells the story of the battle of the sexes against an exotic backdrop. The work tells the story of the beguilingly beautiful and cold yet seductive Chinese princess, Turandot.
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The opera is characterized by the tension it creates between the denial of love and secret affection, between self-sacrifice and obsession with sacrificial victims, and between cold cruelty and pure love. The performance was received with unanimous enthusiasm. Lorin Maazel scored a great personal success with audience and critics alike with passion, authority and brilliance in his conducting. The applause at the end of the performance lasted three-quarters of an hour and was directed not only at Maazel, but also at the team of wonderful singer-actors.
The Hungarian soprano Eva Marton brought to the title role what one critic described as “a voice of gleaming metal in which one senses the beautiful woman lying in wait to defeat her opponent but is also aware of her fears of man in general.” Appearing alongside her as Calaf was José Carreras whose “unprecedented intensity” and “priceless tenor voice” were once again at the fore. Katia Ricciarelli was no less acclaimed in her role as “the best of all possible Liùs”.
CAST:
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
Works on This Recording
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
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