The Metropolitan Opera Live Encore Screening: Turandot

Marco Armiliato conducts Franco Zeffirelli's lavish staging of Puccini's final opera, recorded live on the stage of the Lincoln Center For The Performing Arts in New York. Emperor Altoum, ruler of ancient China, is desperate to see his spirited daughter Princess Turandot married so she can assume the throne before he dies. Alas, Turandot refuses to be ruled by a man and instructs all suitors that she will only accept a proposal from someone, who answers her series of riddles.