Giacomo Puccini’s opera “Turandot” pays tribute to Ukraine with its troubles in a Met Opera Live performance starring Ukrainian soprano Liudmyla Monastyrska. It plays at the M.V. Film Center on Saturday, May 7, at 12:55 pm. Tenor Yonghoon Lee is the prince who seeks Turandot’s love. Soprano Ermonela Jaho plays the servant Liu, and Italian […]
Ukranian soprano Liudmyla Monastryska steps into the lead role at The Met Opera, playing Puccini’s icy princess in Turandot. Tenor Yonghoon Lee is Calàf, the suitor who risks his head for her hand and sings the famed aria “Nessun dorma.” Soprano Michelle Bradley is the slave girl Liù, and legendary bass Ferruccio Furlanetto is Calàf’s long-lost father, Timur. Turandot comes to The Ridgefield Playhouse on the big screen in HD on Monday, October 14th at 2pm, part of the Classical Series underwritten by Jeanne Cook, Liz & Steven Goldstone, and Sabina & Walter Slavin, with support from Whistle Stop Bakery. Discounts are available for members, seniors and students!
It was conducted by Ukrainian Oksana Lyniv, who became the first woman ever to conduct at Germany's prestigious Bayreuth festival last year.
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Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei makes his directorial operatic debut in Rome on Tuesday with a new reading of Giacomo Puccini’s final, unfinished opera, “Turandot”.