Cast and Crew of Puccini: Turandot

Cast of
Puccini: Turandot

About Puccini: Turandot

  • Released on November 07, 2009
  • Music

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.

Full Cast of Puccini: Turandot

Maria Guleghina
plays Turandot

Marina Poplavskaya
plays Liù

Marcello Giordani
plays Calàf

Samuel Ramey
plays Timur

Charles Anthony
plays Emperador Altoum

Joshua Hopkins
plays Ping

Tony Stevenson
plays Pang

Eduardo Valdes
plays Pong

Patricia Racette
plays Self - Host

Keith Miller
plays Mandarin

Antonio Demarco
plays Executioner

Sasha Semin
plays Prince of Persia

Anne Nonnemacher
plays Handmaiden

Mary Hughes
plays Handmaiden

MET Orchestra

Crew of Puccini: Turandot

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