The Turandot Project

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The Turandot Project

2001

1h 27m

Documentary

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Chronicles the creation of the extraordinary production of Giacomo Puccini's opera, Turandot, beginning with performances in Florence, Italy, in 1997, and culminating the next year in spectacular outdoor presentations in the Forbidden City of Beijing. "The Turandot Project" presents a glorious picture of the most ambitious production of Turandot ever staged, with its backstage dramas, its enormous technical problems, its passions and politics, all enacted amid a complicated array of languages.

Tom Sime

Dallas Morning News

Feb 14, 2002

B+

Turandot emerges triumphant, but by the time it does, Mr. Zhang looks considerably older.

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Joshua Kosman

San Francisco Chronicle

Dec 21, 2001

Presumably there's an interesting yarn buried in the project, but Allan Miller's drab, diffuse documentary never quite locates it.

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Kenneth Turan

Los Angeles Times

Sep 14, 2001

4/5

To see this passion playing out, to experience how much this production did mean to China, allows The Turandot Project to attain levels of emotion that complement those of Puccini's classic.

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

Nov 9, 2005

3/5

Thomas Delapa

Boulder Weekly

Apr 21, 2005

2/5

Jim Shelby

Palo Alto Weekly

May 20, 2003

2.5/4

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Oct 18, 2009

Ti ricordi, Carlo? Lo storico Turandot nella CittÃ Proibita a Pechino? Eri ancora bello in tutto ciÃ² che truccarsi dell 'imperatore tartaro Timur. Purtroppo, Sergej Larin Ã¨ morto all'inizio dello scorso anno. Mi ricordo di lui cantando Adriana Lecouvreur con Daniela DessÃ¬, magnifico! Liu Ã¨ stato cantato da Barbara Fritolli. Diretta da Zubin Mehta e la regia di Zhang Yimou.

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May 12, 2008

Also catch the DVD of the performance at the forbidden city! It is worth looking for! The costumes are amazing and so are the voices!

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Feb 25, 2008

Superbe... mais c'est toujours Puccini.

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Feb 13, 2008

A great documentary. If you can see the DVD of the Forbiden City performance of "Turandot," this movie will definitely make you appreciate it more.

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Jun 8, 2007

One of the most amazing documentary films regarding one of Puccini's most beloved Operas! Puccini died unfortunately before he could finish writing it! Wonderful!

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Chronicles the creation of the extraordinary production of Giacomo Puccini's opera, Turandot, beginning with performances in Florence, Italy, in 1997, and culminating the next year in spectacular outdoor presentations in the Forbidden City of Beijing. "The Turandot Project" presents a glorious picture of the most ambitious production of Turandot ever staged, with its backstage dramas, its enormous technical problems, its passions and politics, all enacted amid a complicated array of languages.

Director: Allan Miller
Producer: Margaret Smilov
Distributor: Zeitgeist Films
Production Co: Alternate Current, Four Oaks Foundation
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 10, 2001, Wide
Release Date (DVD): May 28, 2002
Runtime: 1h 27m
Sound Mix: Surround, Dolby SR, Dolby Digital, Dolby A, Dolby Stereo

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