TURANDOT ~ RAI Roma 1965

Above: soprano Anne McKnight, aka Anna de Cavalieri

A very interesting audio-only performance of TURANDOT from a 1965 RAI broadcast has turned up on YouTube. Listen here.

Anna de Cavalieri was the Italian stage-name of the American soprano Anne McKnight. Read about her here. Giuseppe Valdegno was Toscanini’s Amonasro, Iago, and Falstaff. I wrote briefly about Lydia Marimpietri here.

CAST

Turandot – Anna Di Cavalieri; Calaf – Gianfranco Cecchele; Liù – Lydia Marimpietrl; Ping – Giuseppe Valdengo; Pang – Mario Carlin; Pong – Tommaso Frascati; Timur – Elio Castellano; Emperor Altoum – Mario Binci; Mandarin – Giandomenico Alunno

Conductor: Ferruccio Scaglia