Great Performances » Franco Zeffirelli http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf The best in the performing arts from across America. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:30:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 GP at the Met: Turandot: Preview the Opera http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/episodes/gp-at-the-met-turandot/preview-the-opera/938/ http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/episodes/gp-at-the-met-turandot/preview-the-opera/938/#comments Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:54:57 +0000 colin fitzpatrick http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/?p=938 Franco Zeffirelli’s glittering production of Puccini’s Turandot, with Maria Guleghina in the title role and Marcello Giordani as Calàf,  makes its debut on THIRTEEN’S Great Performances at the Met. Marina Poplavskaya sings Liù, Samuel Ramey is Timur, and conductor Andris Nelsons makes his Great Performances at the Met debut. With its grand, dazzling sets, the production by Franco Zeffirelli has been an audience favorite since its premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1987 and the New York Times has called this Turandot “the Met at its best.”

Turandot airs on THIRTEEN’S Great Performances at the Met on PBS on Sunday, February 28 at noon EST (check local listings).

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Great Performances at the Met is a presentation of THIRTEEN in association with WNET.ORG – one of America’s most prolific and respected public media providers.

Great Performances at the Met: Turandot is the fourth of 10 productions airing this season during the 2009-2010 series. The performance is sung in Italian with English surtitles. The set designs are by Zeffirelli. Costume designs are by Anna Anni and Dada Saligeri, and the lighting designer is Gil Wechsler. Chiang Ching is the choreographer and supervisor of stylized movement, and the stage director is David Kneuss.

Great Performances is funded by the Irene Diamond Fund, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, public television viewers and PBS. Corporate support for Great Performances at the Met is provided by Toll Brothers, America’s luxury home-builder®.

For the Met, Mia Bongiovanni and Elena Park are Supervising Producers, and Louisa Briccetti and Victoria Warivonchik are Producers. Peter Gelb is Executive Producer. For Great Performances, Bill O’Donnell is Series Producer; David Horn is Executive Producer.

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la boheme

Marty Sohl/Metropolitan Opera

Composer: Giacomo Puccini

Librettists: Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica

Production: Franco Zeffirelli

Conductor: Nicola Luisotti

Performers: Angela Gheorghiu (Mimì), Ramón Vargas (Rodolfo), Ainhoa Arteta (Musetta), Ludovic Tézier (Marcello), Quinn Kelsey (Schaunard), Oren Gradus (Colline), Paul Plishka (Benoit/Alcindoro)

Synopsis:
Franco Zeffirelli’s timeless interpretation of the Puccini favorite has been delighting audiences at the Met for more than 20 years. GREAT PERFORMANCES at the Met is there when yet another magnificent cast takes to the stage in this enduring classic. Exciting young conductor Nicola Luisotti presides over a glorious vocal ensemble led by Angela Gheorghiu, who sings Mimì at the Met for the first time in twelve years, opposite tenor Ramón Vargas as her lover, Rodolfo.

Opera synopsis courtesy of the Metropolitan Opera.

Funding for GREAT PERFORMANCES AT THE MET: “La Bohème” has been provided by Toll Brothers, the Irene Diamond Fund, the Sybil B. Harrington Endowment Fund, M. Beverly and Robert G. Bartner, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and PBS.

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