It is an event that attracts thousands of music lovers to Verona every summer: the opera season in the ancient Roman Arena. Nearly 22,000 spectators regularly fill the amphitheatre for the performances. The Arena di Verona honours Italian stage director and filmmaker Franco Zeffirelli and his legendary production of Turandot. His imposing cinematographic production reproduces imperial China thanks to its impressive scenery and scenes, enriched by the sumptuous costumes of the Oscar-winning Japanese costume designer Emi Wada. Everything helps to highlight the atmosphere of the drama of enigma per excellence, where life itself is in danger and the answer lies in love, which melts the protagonist’s icy heart.

“Netrebko does not merely sing it: she interprets it. What emerges is a character much more human and ultimately truer than usual” – La Stampa

Cast:
- Turandot: Anna Netrebko
- Altoum: Carlo Bosi
- Timur: Ferruccio Furlanetto
- Calaf: Yusif Eyvazov
- Liù: Maria Teresa Leva
- Ping: Gëzim Myshketa
- Pang: Riccardo Rados
- Pong: Matteo Mezzaro
- A Mandarin: Youngjun Park

Stage director and set designer: Franco Zeffirelli
Costume designer: Emi Wada
Lighting designer: Paolo Mazzon
Choreographic movements: Maria Grazia Garofoli
Video directors: Davide Mancini, Tiziano Mancini

Recording date: Arena di Verona, Italy, June 2022
Sound format: PCM Stereo, DTS-HD MA 5.1
Picture: 1080i, 16:9
Booklet: English, German, French
Subtitles: Italian (original language), English, German, French, Spanish, Korean, Japanese
Total running time: 139 mins