TURANDOT

Composer Giacomo Puccini. Libretto by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni after Carlo Gozzi.

Recommended for ages 12 and up

Dramma lirico in three acts (five scenes) - 1926

In Italian - With surtitles in German and English.

Duration approx. 2 hours 55 minutes

Description

The people are in a bloodlust: the public beheading of another of the ruler's suitors is imminent. For Princess Turandot never wants to belong to a man. That's why anyone who wants to marry her must solve three riddles. Those who fail to do so will pay with their lives. An unknown prince, repelled by Turandot's cruelty but attracted by her beauty, takes this life-threatening risk again - and solves the riddles. But has he thereby awakened the ice-cold, man-killing ruler to love and put an end to the cruelty?

Turandot is Giacomo Puccini's last opera. He died at a time when he had come to a standstill over a hitherto unsolved dramaturgical problem with the composition: the princess was to become a counter-draft to the anti-feminism of the fin de siècle. But how was he to realize the transformation of the male murderer into a lover? Puccini left the final love scene between Turandot and Calaf unfinished.

Cast

• Musical direction: Zubin Mehta
• Production: Carlus Padrissa - La Fura dels Baus
• Stage: Roland Olbeter
• Costumes: Chu Uroz
• Video: Franc Aleu
• Lighting: Urs Schönebaum
• Dramaturgy: Andrea SchönhoferRainerKarlitschek
• Choirs: Christoph Heil

• Turandot: Olga Maslova(2026: Jun 06, 09, 14, 17), Sondra Radvanovsk(2026: Jun 30, Jul 03, 06)
• Altoum: Kevin Conners
• Timur: Dmitry Ulyanov (2026: Jun 06, 09, 14, 17), Christian Van Horn (2026: Jun 30, Jul 03, 06)
• Calaf: Jonas Kaufmann(2026: Jun 06, 09, 14, 17), Yonghoon Lee (2026: Jun 30, Jul 03, 06)
• Liù: Ermonela Jaho (2026: Jun 06, 09, 14, 17), Golda Schultz(2026: Jun 30, Jul 03, 06)
• Ping: Armand Rabot (2026: Jun 06, 09, 14, 17), Vitor Bispo (2026: Jun 30, Jul 03, 06)
• Pang: Tansel Akzeybek
• Pong: Samuel Stopford
• Un mandarino : Bálint Szabó
• Il principe di Persia: Samuel Stopford