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Turandot At The Forbidden City Of Beijing
1999
The Chinese Princess Turandot sends several suitors to the guillotine before meeting one with a hidden identity who knows the answers to her riddles. Before revealing the identity of the suitor, a slave girl takes her own life. The princess sees her mistake and reveals her love for the suitor and is married to him. Directed by .. Read more
| Starring | Giovanna Casolla, Aldo Bottion, Carlo Colombara, Sergej Larin |
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| Director | Yimou Zhang, Hugo Kach |
| Genres | Music/Musical |
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Turandot At The Forbidden City Of Beijing
The Chinese Princess Turandot sends several suitors to the guillotine before meeting one with a hidden identity who knows the answers to her riddles. Before revealing the identity of the suitor, a slave girl takes her own life. The princess sees her mistake and reveals her love for the suitor and is married to him. Directed by Chinese film director Yimou (RAISE THE RED LANTERN).
| Starring | Giovanna Casolla, Aldo Bottion, Carlo Colombara, Sergej Larin, Barbara Frittoli, Francesco Piccoli, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Chor, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Orch |
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| Director | Yimou Zhang, Hugo Kach |
| Studio | SONY BMG |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Music/Musical |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 10 May 1999 Production year: 1999 |
| Format | DVD |
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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Magical Rebirth of Turandot!
Turandot At The Forbidden City Of Beijing.
I doubt if Puccini ever realised the true potential of his Opera. But he certainly had the vision to write about a foreign land and its people. It is in Zhang Yimou's brilliant mind that this great work is given life. I won't forget Zubin Mehta, who gives the work it's soul. I now realise how limited the potential of any classical work is without the collaborative effort of writer/composer, conductor and the director. If you thought opera was uninteresting, than you owe it to yourself to see this. Even if you are an aficionado of Opera you need to see this even more, to realise how limiting the work was without Zhang Yimou's vision. This disk is also the only example of DVD where the multiple camera angles are used to its fullest potential. The costumes are amazing. The setting of Beijing is even more fitting for this brilliant work. There’s excellent making of documentary on the disk. There is also an excellent PCM soundtrack of the opera with images. I only wish the sound on the opera itself was a little better. All in all this is possibly the finest example of sound and vision. -
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1 out of 1 person found this review helpful
Pure nostalgia
I rented Turandot in the Forbidden City because I was there. It was outdoors on a stunning evening in Beijing and the production was magical. The sound and singing were excellent. The DVD does not do justice to the performance but the sound is better than I had expected. The voices sound echoing but good, particularly Lui.
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