Turandot: Finale (Met Opera)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.พ. 2025
- The finale from Puccini's TURANDOT, from the Met's "Live in HD" series.
Watch the entire performance on Met Opera on Demand: bit.ly/V6BD66
Production: Franco Zeffirelli
Conductor: Andris Nelsons
The Metropolitan Opera
2009-10 Season
Puccini was an artist whose work just kept getting better as he grew older. This is the most lavish production of his final masterpiece (sadly never finished) I have ever seen thanks to Franco Zeffirelli's inspired design and direction.
Absolutely agree, I often wonder what else he might have done if he had lived longer, I never view Turandot without goose bumps. Ravishing in every way.
Decades ago, we saw 'Turandot' at the Met. There was such a soulless soprano that we left. She had skill - no doubt. I'm old - never did that before or since. And, yes, the sets were splendid.
Am curious if that's ever happened to anyone else.
Fwiw, I love opera as much as anything - and that means even 5-hr German ones.
I didn't understand a word that was sing, except Turandot, but I had tears running down my cheeks. Pure beauty.
1st opera at the Met I ever saw. The scenery got a standing ovation. THE SCENERY. Extraordinary!
Ya gotta love Zeferilli. His Tosca scenery brought the house down...amazing director/set designer.
I've heard it said that the Met is the only opera company whose sets get applause. I, for one, and delighted for it. A lot of brilliant talent, management, and sheer production skill are behind the scenery.
@@DannyEastVillage
We’ve applauded many of those amazing sets and scenery attending opera there. Including this one.
@@samueljaramillo4221 Literally? How do you applaud scenery? Does the conductor point to it?
@@scottgelband2253
The scenery is part of the whole production. Music, singing, sets, scenery, costumes . Who wants to sit there and just listen to the music and singing and look at an empty stage. You may want to, I don’t . If all you want is the music and the singing, it’s called a concert.
So nice to see a sumptuously staged opera, instead of the minimalist, almost cartoonish productions often foisted on us, these days.
Sadly, funding for opera houses and the arts in general has been on a steady decline. Very difficult to make lavish productions every time with such limited budgets.
I saw this at the Met. Absolutely astonishing!!!
Lavish production, excellent camerawork, and an ending to an opera that Puccini tried with great difficulty to complete over a number of years but simply could not bring himself to do so. The ending was a metaphor for his desire to overcome a tragedy in his personal life with a resolution that could never be fulfilled, and so the happy ending he envisioned for Turandot could never ring true to his artistic self if he completed it. He was that great an artist, as he left us his own heartbreak in the music.
This is probably the best video of the finale. Enhanced by silent presence of Maria Guleghina - by this point in the long opera, most sopranos playing the Princess look like they're in pain, but she has this beatific smile and the expression of love appropriate to the story.
how can you say something so absolute like "it-s the best video".... check the finale in Verona arena..by Zeffirelli
Bernard Sussman ha...you know there is no real ending for this opera by Puccini. Why do you presume your thought about the ending is 'appropriate to the story'?
This is from the dress rehearsal.
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@@alvarodecampostabacaria4223
Forget Verona. This is the best in a theater not an arena.
seen it live 24 times. never gets old.
Nils Lychee you are THE OPERA LOVER.
It was already old on the premiere night…
I’ve never seen it. Hope to one day
Ohhhja, het lijkt me fantastisch
Absolutely beautiful
Seeing this Saturday afternoon. Can’t wait
Ik hoop dat je een onvergetelijke dag hebt gehad
Saw this at a theater when they showed The Met HD. So stunning!
W O N D E R F U L!!!!!!!!! Zeffirelli FOREVER!!
Vi ao vivo na Arena Di Verona...espetacular! Transcende a alma.
We’ve seen this live in the house three times. It’s amazing,stunning.
This is perfection!
I adore this opera.
This is the only opera I haven't dozed off while watching the opera. This is touching, colorful, fantastic....and I love 'Jasmine' chinese folk song.
Beyond magnificent at the Met
Thank you!
aesthetically it's maybe one of the most beautiful thing i ever saw and heard
i guess I'm pretty off topic but does anyone know a good website to stream new movies online ?
@Randy Brandon lately I have been using Flixzone. Just google for it =)
@Randy Brandon lately I have been using flixzone. You can find it on google =)
Looks like a Chinese takeaway on steroids….
Beautiful. I saw it this season
It’s straight out of a Chinoiserie wallpaper…love Turandot
Gorgeous. And a much better ending than either Turandot or Calaf deserve. They're vile characters. Must be why Puccini made the music more beautiful than ever.
It is a just ending: they deserve each other!
are you all insane? this must be the best opera production in history! the only bad thing about it that I can say is that it is so good that these modern singers are TOO LITTLE for it, it makes them seem ever more meriocre than they reall are!
The greatest Turandot was a tiny woman called Eva Turner, who my great grandparents saw, and apparently talked about for years after because she drowned out the orchestra and chorus. When she made recordings in the 1920s and 30s she had to stand behind the orchestra so the orchestra could be heard on the record.
It's size of voice that matters.
Awesome.
This is why I must move to NYC
Olağanüstü, harika
Maravilloso
nice to see that classical music has improved you so much.... what a comment... :)
Anoche la vi… espectacular ❤
I don't see a problem with this production. Broadway never crossed my mind. I don't see why genres can't match either. For that matter I see nothing wrong with Broadway productions. I wish people in the music world would be more open-minded, then it wouldn't have the snobby reputation it has.
Jaydoggy531 do you have a point at all? or are you just throwing shots in the dark to see what happens?
I can't blame the audience for clapping before the music ends.
I like Alfano's original ending better, about 1 minute longer, with extra brass and more high B-flats, B's and C's for the soprano and tenor ringing out in octaves. It's MAGNIFICENT.
La Guleghina hasta callada es maravillosa..
Pheeeeeeeeenomenal!!!
Only 2D stage when I was there,i want my money 😂
Complete cast please!
Изумительно!!!
Bravissimi!
Glorious!
Aplaudo su existencia
RIP Franco Zeffirelli
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there is amazing singers right now! who does the castings? how strong are the agencies in this game! why do you do this to opera!?
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Wie es wohl ausgeht....?
Grandioso final! Talvez demasiado, rozando el mal gusto
Wow...much have cost a fortune to stage this opera
They seem to often do that. Nicer things have been done with tiny budgets. Still, great singing!
@MariaCaIIas I'm not quite sure but I know Placido Domingo was Calaf.
Callas was Turandot
Seemed alright to me. I'm in the "new audience" as people call it and I found it pretty enticing. Of course I know it's incredibly historically inaccurate, but one has to acknowledge the ignorance of the time for it to make sense. It's a fairy tale more than anything to me. Perhaps that's what's making me miss whatever "hideous" things you're finding.
There is a certain type of opera "fan" who make themselves feel very intellectual by criticising perfectly good singers and productions. These people are stunningly similar to Dr Who fans in that they love to slate what they profess to love.
It remains a little flawed that Turandot changed her heart after a (forced upon her, mind you) kiss from the prince. After all, her woman ancestor that she is reincarnated from was raped and killed by a man. The prince should have made something imensly unselfish abd humanitarian and in order to redeem that.I only hoped that Puccini would have found something like that if he lived longer.
Wasn't the humanitarian thing supposed to be that he gave her a chance?
It's hugely flawed, and there are variations that attempt to address it (eg by having him kiss her gently instead, and Turnadot explaining her change of emotion rather than having it come out of nowhere in the end).
Personally I just find Calaf very unlikeable: Liu ends up getting tortured and dying partially due to his actions; Turnadot's subjects were threatened with a similar fate that he could have prevented by opting to give her up, but he chose not to; and his pursuit of Turnadot comes off like single-minded physical obsession rather than genuine love. The resolution just leaves me emotionally numb.
I greatly enjoy the music in isolation, but the story is just unsatisfying.
Looks like a total bordello. Zeffirelli act two BOHÈME is a zen garden by comparison.
@mannail888
What's wrong with the production? Even though it's totally over-the-top at least it has a royal feel to it and immerses us in this realm, stereotypical as it may be.
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Such music. What a pity she's so vile and he's such a coward that they don't deserve it.
unclealand Absolutely true! His cowardice and her malice take life of a dependent girl (I don’t like the word slave) Liu. Typical of how common people bear collateral damage in the power struggles of the wealthy and influential powerful people.
@@shreyaschawathey3820 they are two beings separate from the rest of humanity, a warrior prince and the daughter of heaven. Though it's not spelled out, it is Liu's death that is the catalyst that brings them to the point where he is willing to die should Turandot wish it, and she gives up the victory he gives her. They become human because of Liu.
@@shreyaschawathey3820 She's a slave, that's the way it is. A slave.
@@fan2jnrc it is sad to know this...how can someone use a human being to serve their own purpose ?
I saw Turandot in Covent Garden two weeks ago. Marco Berti and Lise Lindstrom were far better than the stars here, but the set was not in the same league as this met production. The costumes were far less appealing and the ambition of the production paled compared to the Met production.
I think every opera production I've seen anywhere else pales in comparison to what the Met does. Many opera houses don't have the money or the massive stage that the Met does to put on these kinds of productions.
Of course Puccini never finished this opera. It was finished by a student of his......
A resounding climax to the opera that Puccini never actually completed, starring Ping, Pang, Pong and cheerleaders wrestling with big white moths!
@jordanbbuu Giordani in bad shape....
Trumps victory song. He wins.
Is t this what Trump played?
Now this is a production, unlike the cartoonist water down version in LA Opera.
Kitschy, corny staging
such kitsch. What did they call the Paris Opera in the 19th century? La grande boutique? Jewelpiece of a decadent art - at least while Meyerbeer and his ilk were ascendant.
I am guessing you would prefer the butchered, cartoonish productions that they do in Europe, such as the plastic Ring of the Niebelung.
It's still Kitsch. Can you imagine if we presented Shakespeare in the mid 19th century tradition? It would be unwatchable to the vast majority of audiences
@The99Gambo The 1988 version by the Met is just as awful as the new one. While it is true that Marton is even more hideous than that Swiss glacier, that espanol singer is totally at sea which leaves only the indomitable Mitchell to save the day which is not enough.
Why would I want to watch a washposh of Orientalistic stage production? Please spare me the pain, & upload a clip where the stars sing!
Worst birthday present ever
Ungrateful!
It looks more like a Rodgers and Hamerstein musical than opera. Zeffirelli should remember that Broadway and Opera are two different art forms, each great in their own way when done properly but you cannot mix them. It doesn't work.
Even with the sound of music and king and i
@The99Gambo It's not one bit sad at all because the singing of Calaf and Turandot are so dreadfully awful that you might not be able to recover from its all round atrocities perpetrated by this most rotten production.
@Jaydoggy531 Royal feel, you must be kidding. More like hideous feel. Everything: the costumes, the sets, the proceedings of the actions, the gestures of the extras and the chorus and utimately the direction are so elephantine, so ponderous, so clumsy that any trace of liviness is sucked out.
This is the worst kitsch EVER. Zeffirelli can go to hell, he is killing opera.
mediocre singers are killing opera..
@@alvarodecampostabacaria4223 what's killing opera is pathetic attempts to make opera "relevant" by setting grand operas on sparse stages that look like overturned builders' skips, costumes that Primark would reject and intrusive acknowledgements of whatever the latest socio political zeitgeist is.