Puccini: Turandot Blu Ray –  

Lise Lindstrom and Frank Porretta star in Franco Zeffirelli’s acclaimed production of Puccini’s last opera at New York’s Metropolitan Opera in 2010.

Franco Zeffirelli’s magnificent staging of Puccini’s final opera — a fairy tale set in a mythical China — is one of the most popular in the Met repertory. In this Live in HD production, Maria Guleghina takes on the title role and Marcello Giordani is Calaf, the unknown prince. Marina Poplavskaya and Samuel Ramey co-star, and Andris Nelsons conducts in his Met debut.