Puccini: Turandot Andrea Bocelli

• Giacomo Puccini 1858–1924: Atto primo · Act One · Acte un · Erster Akt:
• 1 Popoli di Pekino! 05:42
• 2 Gira la cote! 07:18
• 3 O giovinetto! Grazia, grazia! 04:58
• 4 Figlio, che fai? 01:35
• 5 Fermo! Che fai? T'arresta 06:11
• 6 Signore, ascolta 02:31
• 7 Liù Calaf, Liù, Timur, Ping, Pong, Pang, la folla 05:21
• Atto secondo · Act Two · Acte deux · Zweiter Akt Quadro 1 · Scene 1 · Premier Tableau · 1. Szene:
• 8 Olà, Pang! Olà, Pong! Ping, Pong, Pang 03:44
• 9 Ho una casa nell'Honan 03:39
• 10 O mondo, O mondo 04:34
• Quadro 2 · Scene 2 · Second Tableau · 2. Szene:
• 11 Introduzione (Scene 2) 01:05
• 12 Gravi, enormi ed impotenti 03:19
• 13 Un giuramento atroce mi costringe 03:26
• 14 Popolo di Pekino 01:40
• 15 In questa reggia 06:10
• 16 Straniero, ascolta 06:46
• 17 Gloria, gloria, o vincitore 04:26
• 18 Tre enigmi m'hai proposto 04:02
• Atto terzo · Act Three · Acte trois · Dritter Akt Quadro 1 · Scene 1 · Premier Tableau · 1. Szene:
• 19 Introduzione - Così comanda Turandot 03:40
• 20 Nessun dorma! 07:13
• 21 Principessa divina! 07:36
• 22 Tu che di gel sei cinta 02:55
• 23 Liù! Liù! Sorgi! Sorgi! 04:45
• 24 Principessa di morte! 03:15
• 25 Che è mai di me? 02:56
• 26 Del primo pianto 03:40
• 27 So il tuo nome! 02:10
• Quadro 2 · Scene 2 · Second Tableau · 2. Szene:
• 28 Diecimilia anni al nostro Imperatore! 02:24
• Total Runtime 01:57:01

Info for Puccini: Turandot

Following last year’s release of Manon Lescaut, Andrea Bocelli stays with Puccini for an emotionally charged account of the composer’s magnificent Turandot. This new complete opera recording, featuring the world-renowned aria “Nessun dorma” (“None shall sleep”), will be warmly welcomed by Bocelli’s army of ardent fans. It is conducted by Zubin Mehta, who has made a speciality of this first-class Puccini opera ever since his landmark 1972 Decca recording, here drawing a stirring orchestral performance from the Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana.

Bocelli takes the lead role of Calaf – the unknown prince – and his powerful tenor tells a compelling story of riddles answered, triumph secured, honour displayed and love deeply felt.

The key role of the ice-cold riddler princess, Turandot, is sung by American soprano Jennifer Wilson.

Completing an impressive cast are Jessica Nuccio as Liù, Alexander Tsymbalyuk as Timur, Pablo García López as Pong and Germán Olvera and Valentino Buzza as Ping and the Gran Cancelliere, the last two coming from Plácido Domingo’s training centre, the Centre de Perfeccionament Plácido Domingo at Valencia’s Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía.

The soprano who created the role of Turandot in Puccini’s final, unfinished masterpiece, Rosa Raisa, described the first night to a biographer: “It was an electrified atmosphere, with the greatest musicians and critics in the world gathered for this world premiere and listening religiously to Puccini’s last creation. At the end of the Third Act [first scene], while the dead Liù is accompanied by Timur, with Ping, Pang and Pong following, and as the chorus continues to intone the motif of the last aria that she sang, until the whole stage is emptied, Toscanini laid down his baton, and in a voice choking with emotion announced that this is where Puccini left off: ‘Here is where the maestro died.’”

Bocelli’s deep-rooted commitment to opera shines through in his moving rendition of “Nessun dorma,” perhaps the best-known and most-loved tenor aria of all time. As the legendary reviewer Edward Greenfield has written, “Bocelli’s great natural gift is a powerful tenor of very distinctive timbre, not conventionally rounded in a Pavarotti-like way but above all virile with a baritonal tinge.”

With sales of more than 80 million records worldwide, Bocelli is the world’s biggest- selling classical artist. Turandotmarks his latest journey into the great Italian master’s operatic canon.

Andrea Bocelli, tenor
Jennifer Wilson, soprano
Jessica Nuccio, soprano
Alexander Tsymbalyuk, bass
Pablo García López, tenor
Germán Olvera, baritone
Valentino Buzza, tenor
Cor de la Generalitat Valenciana
Escolania de la Mare de Déu dels Desemparats
Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana
Zubin Mehta, conductor

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