Franco Zeffirelli's magnificient 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.
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Just as a young woman is about to marry her sweetheart, she is discovered—by the entire village, to ...
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José Cura sings and acts here with an inwardness and intensity which make a profound impression. So ...