Above: soprano Anne McKnight, aka Anna de Cavalieri
A very interesting audio-only performance of TURANDOT from a 1965 RAI broadcast has turned up on YouTube. Listen here.
Anna de Cavalieri was the Italian stage-name of the American soprano Anne McKnight. Read about her here. Giuseppe Valdegno was Toscanini's Amonasro, Iago, and Falstaff. I wrote briefly about Lydia Marimpietri here.
CAST
Turandot - Anna Di Cavalieri; Calaf - Gianfranco Cecchele; Liù - Lydia Marimpietrl; Ping - Giuseppe Valdengo; Pang - Mario Carlin; Pong - Tommaso Frascati; Timur - Elio Castellano; Emperor Altoum - Mario Binci; Mandarin - Giandomenico Alunno
Conductor: Ferruccio Scaglia