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Formats and Editions
1. First Act Beijing of People! (Officials, Crowd, Escort, Liu) (Mono)
2. First Act Father! Father! (Prince of Anonymous, Liu, Crowd, Timur) (Mono)
3. Losing to Act 1 Fight (Timur, Unnamed Prince, Liu, Crowd) (Mono)
4. And Murder the First Act Grindstone! (Crowd, Beheading of Officials) (Mono)
5. Out of the First Act Tonight of the Moon Will Wonder Why Slow (Crowd) (Mono)
6. At the Top of the Mountain First Act Far East (Children) (Mono)
7. The First Act to Follow Young People! (Crowd, Prince of Anonymous, Monks of White Coat) (Mono)
8. I Was What First Act Son! (Timur, Prince of Anonymous, Liu, Persian Prince, Crowd) (Mono)
9. Wait the First Act! What to Do? Stop (Ministers, Timur) (Mono) 1
10. First Act This, Please Be Quiet! (Maid Who, Ministers, Prince Anonymous) (Mono) 1
11. I'll Look at Him First Act, Pong! (Ministers, Timur) (Mono) 1
12. Do Not Hesitate First Act! (Ghosts, Prince of Anonymous, Ministers, Pin, Pong, Bread, Timur) (Mono) 1
13. First Act Lord, I Ask Please! (Please Ask, Prince) (Liu) (Mono) 1
14. And Me Do Not Cry the First Act, Liu! (Prince of Anonymous, Liu, Timur) (Mono) 1
15. First Act Oh! for the Last Time! (Timur, Liu, Ministers, Prince Anonymous, Chorus, Pin) (Mono) 1
16. First Field Nephew Second Act, Bread! Hey, Pong! (Pin, Pong, Pan) (Mono) 1
17. Second Act First Field King, By China, to Follow China By (Pin, Pong, Bread, Ministers) (Mono) 1
18. Second Act First Field I Land of Hounan, on the Banks of the Blue Lake (Pin, Pong, Bread, Ministers) (Mono) 1
19. Second Act First Field King, This World Is Full of Idiots Who Get Lost in Love (Ministers, Pin, Pong, Pan, Chorus) (Mono) 2
20. Second Act First Field Farewell, Love! (Ministers) (Mono) 2
21. Second Act First Field We Were Watching the Dream (Pin, Pong, Bread, Ministers) (Mono) 2
22. In the Second Act the Second Field Solemnly, Large Proudly (Crowd) (Mono) 2
23. The Second Act the Second Field Brutal Oath, But I (Emperor, Prince Anonymous) (Mono) 2
24. For Your Life in the Second Act the Second Field My Lord in 10,000 Years! (Crowd, Officials, Children) (Mono) 2
25. In the Second Act the Second Field This Palace (Turandot, Crowd, Prince Anonymous) (Mono) 2
26. O Man of the Second Act the Second Field Foreign Country, Listen Well! (Turandot, Unnamed Prince, Philosopher Us) (Mono) 2
27. And Flickering While As in the Second Act the Second Field Colitis (Turandot, Emperor, Crowd, Liu, Unnamed Prince, Philosopher U
28. The Second Act the Second Field Ice Gives Fire to You (Turandot, Unnamed Prince, Wise Man Who, Crowd) (Mono) 2
29. There Bethe Second Act the Second Field King Winner Glory! (Crowd) (Mono) 3
30. The Second Act the Second Field Heaven of the Son! (Turandot, Emperor, Crowd, Prince Anonymous) (Mono) 3
31. The Second Act the Second Field You Got to Put Out the Mystery to Me! (Prince of Anonymous, Emperor) (Mono) 3
32. He Second Act the Second Field Our World of Light, in Your Feet Is a King of the World (Crowd) (Mono) 3
33. Act 3 First Field Turandot Princess Was Ordered to This (Messenger, Distant Voice) (Mono) 3
34. Act 3 First Field Everyone Unexpected Must Sleep (Prince Anonymous, Women of Voice) (Mono) 3
35. Who Are Looking at the Third Act First Field Star! (Pin, Pong, Bread, Ministers, Prince Anonymous, Women, Crowd, Escort) (Mono)
36. Princess Sons in Act 3 First Field God! (Pin, Turandot, Unnamed Prince, Liu, Crowd) (Mono) 3
37. He of the Name Third Act First Field! (Pin, Liu, Timur, Prince Anonymous, Crowd, Turandot) (Mono) 3
38. Opera and "Turandot" (Songs) Act 3 First Field Love? (Turandot, Liu, Pin, Prince of Anonymous, Crowd) (Mono) 3
39. Act 3 First Field Ice in the Enclosed You-Like (Liu, Crowd, Unnamed Prince, Timur, Pin) (Mono) 4
40. Act 3 First Field Liu... Was Good! (Timur, Pin, Pong, Bread, Crowd) (Mono) 4
41. Act 3 First Place Death of Princess! (Prince of Anonymous, Turandot) (Mono) 4
42. I Wonder If I If the Third Act First Field? (Turandot, Prince Anonymous, Chorus) (Mono) 4
43. Act 3 First Field My First Tears... My Glory Is Your Hug! (Turandot, Prince Anonymous) (Mono) 4
44. For Your Life in the Third Act the Second Field My Lord in 10,000 Years! (Crowd, Turandot) (Mono)
More Info:
Japanese remastered 2 x Hybrid SACD pressing. Warner. 2014. Puccini's Turandot was the sixteenth complete opera recording Columbia/Angel made with the Callas and the company of La Scala. Unlike almost every other famous soprano of her day, from Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (1915-2006) to Joan Sutherland [b.1926] and Montserrat Caballé [b.1933], Callas never ventured a contemporary opera; Turandot, first performed in 1926 was the only work she sang in younger than she was herself. Turandot is the perfect vehicle for an ample-sized dramatic soprano with a steady, steely and brilliant voice rising easily to top C. Those of US who saw the truly great Turandot of Birgit Nilsson (1918-2005), will know how ideally it requires a vocal glamour equivalent of a boxer with something of his horse-power. It does not need much in the way of nuance or refinement and no great demands are made on the art of legato and portamento, or in the clean articulation of ornaments. It does not compare with a rôle like Norma, which calls for dramatic accents for far longer stretches, and for a complete mastery of fioritura through every dynamic shading from pianissimo to fortissimo. In the first two years of her career in Italy Callas appeared as Turandot 21 times. A recorded fragment survives from one of the last performances she sang in 1949 at the Colón, Buenos Aires. She manages the lower passages, which pass back and forth into the chest register, more expressively than Turandots are usually capable of, but she has a whole battery of effects that she cannot employ effectively; all we are conscious of is her singing too strenuously. In the days of her youth when she had to pursue her career without vocal compromises it may have been necessary but as soon as she could, wisely, she dropped it from her repertory. Why she made this recording in 1957 was perhaps because she thought recording it was different from singing it in the theatre and would do her voice no irreparable damage. Nevertheless the following year she seems to have had second thoughts for she told New York radio interviewer Harry Fleetwood, 'I sang it all over Italy, hoping to God that it wouldn't wreck my voice. Princess Turandot - Maria Callas (soprano)Calaf (The unknown prince) - Eugenio Fernandi (tenor)Liù - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano)The Emperor Altoum - Giuseppe Nessi (tenor)Timur - Nicola Zaccaria (bass)Ping - Mario Borriello (baritone)Pang - Renato Ercolani (tenor)Pong / Prince of Persia - Piero de Palma (tenor)A mandarin - Giulio Mauri (bass-baritone)First voice - Elisabetta Fusco (soprano)Second voice - Pinuccia Perotti (soprano)
