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Giuliano Carella

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Turandot from the Arena di VeronaFranco Zeffirelli’s lavish staging with costumes by Emi Wada, in superb video – and with Japanese subtitlesA Turandot that preserves the magnificent singing of Salvatore Licitra, the tenor who died suddenly just before a scheduled visit to Japan. Recorded live at the Arena di Verona in the summer of 2010. Licitra was taken up by Riccardo Muti at La Scala soon after his debut and went on to worldwide success; born in 1968, he died just as he was approaching his prime. Calaf, a role he had made very much his own in his last years, suits him ideally: passionate and powerful, yet with a real sweetness in the tone. Often called “the new Pavarotti”, he brings to “Nessun dorma” a delicacy quite different from Pavarotti’s grand manner, and the spirit with which he responds to the ovation with an encore is genuinely moving. Turandot is Maria Guleghina, acclaimed toda