Name: Turandot
Start: 2019-08-31T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2020-02-07T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Staatstheater

Organization

Soprano

Soojin Moon-Sebastian

Turandot

Tenor

Aldo Di Toro

Calaf

Andrea Shin

Bass

Dong-Won Seo

Timur

Johannes Seokhoon Moon

Katharina Persicke

Liù

Jana Baumeister

Baritone

Julian Orlishausen

Ping

David Lee

Pang

Michael Pegher

Pong

Lawrence Jordan

The Emperor Altoum

Werner Volker Meyer

A Mandarin

Myong-Yong Eom

Conductor

Giuseppe Finzi

Michael Nündel

Stage director

Valentin Schwarz

Set designer

Andrea Cozzi

Costume designer

Pascal Seibicke

Chorus master

Sören Eckhoff

Dramaturge

Steffi Mieszkowski

Darmstadt State Theatre

Darmstadt

Germany

Staatstheater

Großes Haus

Turandot Puccini

Approved

Turandot / Teaser / Staatstheater Darmstadt

"A great evening of opera in Darmstadt" Darmstädter Echo

"The courage to take a determined, very personal approach to what is believed to be known is (...) not to be overlooked." The German stage

"The singers are more differentiated, especially Jana Baumeister's splendid Liù, Aldo di Toro's robust Calaf, Soojin Moon's icy Turandot and the expansive choir." The time

What images of women do we see in the opera “ Turandot“? The self-sacrificing woman? The woman who only notices the man when he has "conquered" her at the risk of his life? The hero who has to win over a woman at the risk of her life? Do you have more power over someone if you know their name and identity? And why do those who hide their names always seem more powerful? At first, Princess Turandot is a rather cold ruler without much qualms. She sets the rules of a life-threatening questioning game: Only those who solve the three riddles can win her over as a wife. If you guess wrong, you will be beheaded. Many applicants face the deadly questions... Only the hero from abroad, the nameless Calaf, cracks both the riddles and the ice armor of the princess. He couldn't have done it alone. Liù, who dies (for him), solves the riddle for him.

English

Turandot by Puccini, From (2019/2020), Directed by Valentin Schwarz,, Conductor Giuseppe Finzi, Michael Nündel, Staatstheater, Darmstadt, Germany

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