Cast: TURANDOT......Eva Marton CALÀF......Plácido Domingo CONDUCTOR: James Levine PERFORMANCE DATE: 4th April 1987 Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus COMPOSER: GIACOMO PUCCINI LIBRETTIST: GIUSEPPE ADAMI AND RENATO SIMONI
This is acted so well! She is the only Turandot I ever believed from a dramatic standpoint. Most people comment that she suddenly without warning melts. With Marton, you see a scared woman from her entrance. Clearly Turandot has some trust issues, and when he guesses the riddles she is both frightened, but fascinated.
In the quiet darkness, while you lay fast asleep...I am coming ever nearer, in the darkness deep...to flood you with my passion, before the coming day....and drink a kiss of ecstasy as in my arms you lay
Domingo's voice is gorgeous, of course, but I prefer the way his compatriot Carreras plays this, more delicately and judiciously, aware that this woman, albeit powerful, is afraid and the patroness of a terrible history.
The way she just turns her face away from his after the kiss, puts her hand gently over her mouth, is just breathtaking. It's almost what she desired, but couldn't bring herself to think it, and when it happens, she just succumbs...
Principessa Principessa At this point Franco Alfano completed Turandot for Puccini as he died of Throat Cancer he took sketches /fragments of pieces Puccini wrote together to complete the Opera , always wondered how the Opera would have been sounded pieced together with more of his magical music in place of Alfano interpretation if Puccini had lived long enough so sad , but he did a good job in such difficult circumstances 😔👏a fine video of the Opera especially Barbara Hendricks singing LUI 👏🤷♀️
