Organization

Set designer

Robert Wilson

Lighting designer

Singer

Soprano

Tamara Wilson

Turandot

Conductor

Eun Sun Kim

Tenor

Kristian Benedikt

Calaf

Stage director

Co-Stage Director

Nicola Panzer

Co-Set Designer

Stephanie Engeln

Costume designer

Jacques Reynaud

Makeup and Hair Designer

Manu Halligan

Co-Lighting Designer

John Torres

Nicole Heaston

Liù

Bass

Peixin Chen

Timur

Baritone

Takaoki Onishi

Ping

Andrew Stenson

Pang

William Guanbo Su

A Mandarin

Chorus master

Richard Bado

Video designer

Tomek Jeziorski

Canadian Opera Company

Hayley Abramowitz

First handmaiden

Mezzo-soprano

Gabrielle Reed

Second handmaiden

Hector Vasquez

The Emperor Altoum

Carlos Enrique Santelli

Pong

Teatro Real de Madrid

Opéra National de Paris

Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre

Houston Grand Opera

Orchestra

Houston Grand Opera Orchestra

Others

Houston Grand Opera Chorus

Houston Grand Opera Children's Chorus

Italian

Louisville

United States

Brown Theater

In this exciting conversation, moderated by HGO General Director & CEO Khori Dastoor, hear from Turandot director and lighting designer Robert Wilson and conductor Eun Sun Kim as they chat about their experience working with HGO and their artistic backgrounds.

Turandot Puccini

Public

Private

English

Approved

Tickets available: https://www.houstongrandopera.org/events-tickets/2021-22-season/turandot/

2021-22 | Turandot Promo

Full of arresting pools of color, breathtaking lighting design, and highly stylized movement, this masterful new production could only have been created by visionary director Robert Wilson. Considered Puccini’s finest musical masterpiece, Turandot premiered in 1926, after the composer’s death. The opera transports audiences to a fantasy land ruled by the titular princess, who doesn’t want to marry. She gives her would-be suitors two options: answer three vexing riddles correctly, or die by beheading. Her plan is working perfectly—until Calaf comes to town and she meets her match. But first Turandot must try, one more time, to kill him. Celebrated soprano and HGO Studio alumna Tamara Wilson (Turandot), tenor Kristian Benedikt in his HGO debut (Calaf), HGO Studio alumna, and soprano Nicole Heaston (Liù), and bass and Studio alumnus Peixin Chen (King Timur) lead the diverse and globe-spanning cast. HGO Principal Guest Conductor Eun Sun Kim takes the podium for this superlative new production.

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Crew

Ensemble

Co-Producer