The Turandot Project

Name: The Turandot Project
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2000-09-11
Rating: 6.8

Documentary1h 27m

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Storyline

In 1997, Oscar-winning documentarian Allan Miller embarked on a film project with renowned conductor Zubin Mehta and celebrated Chinese film director Zhang Yimou as they joined forces in a production of Puccini's opera Turandot in Florence. Before the year was out, an extraordinary opportunity arose: to stage Turandot in its original setting in the Forbidden City of Beijing. The outdoor production was an undertaking on an epic scale. A fascinating chronicle of an unprecedented cross-cultural collaboration, THE TURANDOT PROJECT combines the pageantry of this opulent opera production with a spectacular cinematic portrait of the struggles and triumphs of Zubin Mehta and Zhang Yimou to mount their production in this most historic venue of China. (Source: Amazon.com)

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DirectorAllan Miller

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Reviews

4 reviews · 3 critics

2 fresh · 1 rotten

Tom Sime

RTDallas Morning NewsFeb 14, 2002

Turandot emerges triumphant, but by the time it does, Mr. Zhang looks considerably older.

Joshua Kosman

RTSan Francisco ChronicleDec 21, 2001

Presumably there's an interesting yarn buried in the project, but Allan Miller's drab, diffuse documentary never quite locates it.

Kenneth Turan

RTLos Angeles TimesSep 14, 2001

To see this passion playing out, to experience how much this production did mean to China, allows The Turandot Project to attain levels of emotion that complement those of Puccini's classic.

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