AFTER a two-year hiatus, live opera returns to the Main Theater of the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) this month with Giacomo Puccini’s Turandot.
A SCENE from Giacomo Puccini’s opera Turandot in Turkey
“Puccini is one of most performed composers also because he was a great theater man. He wasn’t just a great musician… He always picked up the right story,” Marco Clemente, Ambassador of Italy to the Philippines, toldwas Mr. Puccini’s final opera, which he left unfinished when he died suddenly in 1924. It premiered in Milan in1926 with the ending finished by composer Franco Alfano.
Valentino Favoino will conduct the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra along with the choral ensembles that make up theThe role of Prince Calaf is played by Italian tenor Alessandro Liberatore. Korean soprano Lilla Lee plays Princess Turandot. Bass Jinsu Lee plays Timur, the exiled Tartar king.
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