Royal Opera House: Turandot
2013 · 125 MIN · IMDB 8.3 · DIR. Ian Russell, Andrew Sinclair
Overview
2013 revival of Andrei Serban's 1984 production. Recorded live at the Royal Opera House, September 2013. Andrei Serban's spectacular and thrilling 1984 production of Puccini's final and grandest opera has long been a classic at the Royal Opera House. First filmed for BBC TV in the 80s, this new recording – of its fifteenth revival – is in stunning HD and makes this famous production available for the first time on DVD and Blu-ray. The release will rightfully take its place alongside the outstanding Royal Opera Puccini DVDs of La Bohème, Tosca (on EMI) and Trittico. American Lise Lindstrom is one of the very few contemporary Turandots who can genuinely sing this ‘killer’ role, and is supported by a touching Liù from Japanese soprano Eri Nakamura and an unashamedly Italianite Calaf from Marco Berti. The young Hungarian conductor Henrik Nánási directs the large orchestra and all-important chorus.
Dialogue Timeline — 478 lines
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00:09:04 People of Peking!
00:13:10 It was Liù.
00:17:42 pale lover of the dead.
00:26:40 My lord, we must go far away.
00:28:33 But if you strip her... just flesh.
00:31:27 Off you go, say goodbye. - Climb mountains, ford streams.
00:33:49 My lord, listen.
00:39:31 One last effort! We must get him away.
00:43:54 Everything followed the ancient rules.
00:48:48 O world, full of crazy lovers!
00:52:34 Princess, your empire stretches from Tse-Kiang to the Yangtze.
00:59:43 Enough of blood! Young man, go!
01:06:17 You who resisted oppression...
01:12:20 But the spectre vanishes at dawn to be reborn in the heart.
01:16:40 If it accepts you as slave it makes you king.
01:22:56 I will set you only one.
01:34:22 You heard the command?
01:37:12 Your pleas and threats are useless.
01:40:05 But my supreme joy is to keep it secret.
01:44:12 Tear the secret from her.
01:50:48 Let us take the road again, hand in hand.
01:56:22 My flower of morning! I breathe your perfume.
02:00:21 Torn between two fates: to conquer, or be conquered.
02:05:40 O sun, life, eternity! Love is the light of the world.
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