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The World's Greatest Tenor...Franco Corelli sings Giacomo Puccini's - Turandot - : New York, Metropolitan Opera House, ore: 1400: maestro del coro Kurt Adler; musical preparation Victor Trucco; associate chorus master Thomas P. Martin; production originated by Yoshio Aoyama; staged by Nathaniel Merrill; set and costume design Cecil Beaton; assistant to Mr. Beaton: Edward Wittstein; choreography Mattlyn Gavers; scenery and properties constructed in the Metropolitan Opera Shops and painted in the Metropolitan Opera Studios; costumes executed by Karinska; wigs created by Nina Lawson and executed in the Metropolitan Opera Wig Department; shoes and boots La Ray Boot Shop; lighting supervised by Rudolph Kuntner Act I La principessa Turandot - Birgit Nilsson Limperatore Altoum - Alessio de Paolis Timur - Bonaldo Giaiotti Il principe ignoto (Calaf ) - Franco Corelli Liù - Anna Moffo Ping - Frank Guarrera Pang - Robert Nagy Pong - Charles Anthony Un mandarino - Calvin Marsh Il principe di Persia - Edilio Ferraro Conductor: Leopold Stokowski March 04.1961 **first MET Turandot performance with Corelli/Nilsson was on February 24.1961 ore: 2000**