Callas's EMI recording is still a classic despite a coarse Calaf. Regis's cheaper version is taken (like Naxos's) from copyright-expired LPs, but offers two extra Callas tracks. — BBC Music Magazine, July 2009, With Callas, the character seems so much more believably complex than with others, and this 1957 recording is one of her most thrillingly magnetic performances on disc. Schwarzkopf provides a comparably characterful and distinctive portrait as Liu...Serafin's masterly conducting exactly matches the characterfulness of Callas and Schwarzkopf Penguin Guide Maria Callas (soprano) - Turandot; Eugenio Fernandi (tenor) - Calaf; Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano) - Liù; Giuseppe Nessi (tenor) - Emperor Altoum; Nicola Zaccaria (bass) - Timur; Mario Borriello (tenor) - Ping; Renato Ercolani (tenor) - Pang; Piero de Palma (tenor) - Pong/Prince of Persia; Giulio Mauri (bass) - A Mandarin; Elisabetta Fusco (soprano) - First Voice; Pinuccia Perotti (soprano) - Second Voice; Chorus and Orchestra of La Scala, Milan/ Tullio Serafin.