DVD + Blu-Ray:
Turandot

With a stellar cast ft. Anna Netrebko, the Arena di Verona honours stage director Franco Zeffirelli and his legendary production of Turandot.

It is an event that attracts thousands of music lovers to Verona every summer: the opera season in the ancient Roman Arena. Nearly 22,000 spectators regularly fill the amphitheater for the performances. The Arena di Verona honours Italian stage director and filmmaker Franco Zeffirelli and his legendary production of Turandot. His imposing cinematographic production reproduces imperial China thanks to its impressive scenery and scenes, enriched by the sumptuous costumes of the Oscar-winning Japanese costume designer Emi Wada. Everything helps to highlight the atmosphere of the drama of enigma per excellence, where life itself is in danger and the answer lies in love, which melts the protagonist’s icy heart. “Netrebko does not merely sing it: she interprets it. What emerges is a character much more human and ultimately truer than usual” (La Stampa)

Original title Turandot
Composer Giacomo Puccini
Genre Opera
Soloist Anna Netrebko, Yusiv Eyvazov, Carlo Bosi, Maria Teresa Leva, Ferruccio Furlanetto
Orchestra / Band Orchestra of the Arena di Verona
Choir Chorus of the Arena di Verona
Conductor Marco Armiliato
Stage Director Franco Zeffirelli
Recording location Arena di Verona, Italy, June 2022
Duration 139 mins
Production Company A production of Unitel in cooperation with Fondazione Arena di Verona