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Guanqun Yu's Liù the shining star of Turandot at The Met

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Reviewed at Lincoln Center: Metropolitan Opera House, New York City on 31 March 2018
Puccini, Turandot
Metropolitan Opera
Marco Armiliato, Conductor
Franco Zeffirelli, Director, Set Designer
Anna Anni, Costume Designer
Martina Serafin, Turandot
Marcelo Álvarez, Calaf
Guanqun Yu, Liù
Alexander Tsymbalyuk, Timur
Ronald Naldi, Emperor Altoum
Tony Stevenson, Pang
Eduardo Valdes, Pong
Alexey Lavrov, Ping
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
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