Finale - Turandot - The Metropolitan Opera

[parisraver14]

This is perfection!

[DemisLian]

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!

[saxon954]

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.

[AfroPoli]

This is the worst kitsch EVER. Zeffirelli can go to hell, he is killing opera.

[MariaCaIIas]

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!?

[jordanbbuu]

@MariaCaIIas I'm not quite sure but I know Placido Domingo was Calaf.

[MariaCaIIas]

@jordanbbuu Giordani in bad shape....

[Jaydoggy531]

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.

[5statemobile]

@Jaydoggy531 You are a real sick puppy

[victoriusBP]

W O N D E R F U L!!!!!!!!! Zeffirelli FOREVER!!

[The99Gambo]

Yes, the singing and acting by the main performers in the 1988 is a league above that of 2009. Eva Marton is quite outstanding and reminiscence of Nilsson (the CD by Nilsson, Tebaldi and Bjorling is still my favourite). Marina Poplavskaya, surely a super star in the making, is very good in the 2009 version, yet Leona Mitchell operates at an even higher level. Goodness, what talent was available in 1988. However, there 2009 version is very beautifully photographed and I enjoy that too.

[mannail888]

@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.