{"id":172,"date":"2008-12-02T00:08:33","date_gmt":"2008-12-02T00:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doktorjohn.com\/?p=172"},"modified":"2010-01-02T18:31:29","modified_gmt":"2010-01-02T18:31:29","slug":"turandot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doktorjohn.com\/?p=172","title":{"rendered":"Turandot"},"content":{"rendered":"

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24″ X 30″ Acrylic on canvas—Opera stage scene featuring miniature portraits of Luciano Pavarotti and Ghena Dimitrova. Ownership: Anna Maria Andriulli Ambrose<\/p>\n

This is my most elaborately detailed painting ever, and it is based upon, or inspired by, movie-director Franco Zeffirelli’s set design for the Metropolitan Opera production of Puccini’s “Turandot<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n

This scene is a fantasy set at the court of the emperor of China in a legendary time. The set as portrayed in this painting is modified and abbreviated, leaving out repetitive elements of Zeffirelli’s design. Furthermore, Pavarotti never sang in this<\/em> Metropolitan Opera production, but I put him into the costume of the lead tenor vocalist playing the part of Calaf<\/em>. <\/p>\n

Dimitrova, on the other hand, was definitely cast in this role in the title role of Turandot. The painting was executed in 1989 as a gift to my late brother David, the world’s greatest authority on lyric opera that ever lived. Since 2003, it has passed to the hands of his widow, Anna Maria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

24″ X 30″ Acrylic on canvas—Opera stage scene featuring miniature portraits of Luciano Pavarotti and Ghena Dimitrova. Ownership: Anna Maria Andriulli Ambrose This is my most elaborately detailed painting ever, and it is based upon, or inspired by, movie-director Franco Zeffirelli’s set design for the Metropolitan Opera production of Puccini’s “Turandot.” This scene is a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doktorjohn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/doktorjohn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/doktorjohn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doktorjohn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doktorjohn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/doktorjohn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doktorjohn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doktorjohn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doktorjohn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}