MUSIC: Birgit Nilsson as Turandot (1961, 1965, 1966)

Birgit Nilsson as Turandot, Metropolitan Opera 1966

TURANDOT

Opera by

Giacomo Puccini

Birgit Nilsson, Turandot

Giuseppe di Stefano, Calaf

Leontyne Price, Liu
Nicola Zaccaria, Timur

Vienna Philharmonic
Francesco Molinari-Pradelli

22 June 1961

Metropolitan Opera NY, 1966

Birgit Nilsson, Turandot

Franco Corelli, Calaf

Mirella Freni, Liu

Bonaldo Giaiotti, Timur

Zubin Mehta, Conductor

Live performance

03 December 1966

There is a pirate recording from the same venue posted in YT,
but performed in 15 October 1966. 
Both of them hold the notes even longer!






EMI Studio, 1965

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