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The story is famous: the night of the premiere of Turandot in 1926, Toscanini put his baton down before the next to last scene and announced to the audience that this was the last scene completed by Puccini before dying. He thus repudiated the final sequence completed by Franco Alfano. Since then, the tradition has been to play the Alfano version while bemoaning its dullness and a grand finale out of keeping with the physical and psychological violence that preceded it. Three quarters of a century later, Luciano Berio, the greatest living Italian composer, was asked to try his hand at completing Turandot. The long symphonic interlude that now separates the death of Liu from the rapprochement between Turandot and Calaf reflects the libretto's complex psychological progression better than the surprise happy ending. Premiered in a concert version on the Canary Islands earlier last year, then in a theatrical production in Los Angeles in May, this new version received its European premiere in Amsterdam last spring. Artistic director of the Bregnez festival, David Pountney filled the entire stage space by creating a metallic world of toothed wheels and articulated robots, in a dehumanized vision right out of Chaplin's Modern Times and Fritz Lang's Metropolis.

Italy - 2002 - 25 mn - Betacam SP - Colour

Director Carmelo Di Gennaro Captation Cesare Noia Camera Cristiano Leuti Sound Gianfranco Pranno Editing Gianfranco Pranno

Production RAI International, Franco Porcarelli, Largo V. De Luca, 4, 00188 Rome, Italie Tél : +39 06 3354 2164 Fax : +39 06 3317 1213 E-mail : porcarelli@rai.it

Sales Rai Trade, Alessandra Sottile, via Umberto Novaro 18, 00195 Roma, Italie Tél : +39 06 374 984 73 Fax : +39 06 374 9 82 11 E-mail : sotttile@raitrade.it