Organization

Festtage Berlin

Singer

Soprano

Elena Pankratova

Turandot

Olga Peretyatko

Liù

Bass

Grigory Shkarupa

Timur

Anna Netrebko

Aida Garifullina

René Pape

Tenor

Graham Clark

The Emperor Altoum

Baritone

Gyula Orendt

Ping

Siyabonga Maqungo

Pang

Andrés Moreno García

Pong

David Oštrek

A Mandarin

Stage director

Philipp Stölzl

Conductor

Zubin Mehta

Lighting designer

Irene Selka

Costume designer

Ursula Kudrna

Set designer

Franziska Hamm

Choreographer

Christopher Tölle

Dramaturge

Jana Beckmann

Murat Karahan

Calaf

Yusif Eyvazov

Rehearsal choir

Martin Wright

Others

Kinderchor der Staatsoper Unter den Linden

Orchestra

Staatskapelle Berlin

Staatsopernchor Berlin

Staatsopenchor

Italian

Berlin

Germany

Staatsoper Unter den Linden

Public

Private

German

English

Approved

Princess Turandot does not want to be anyone’s bride. And she is willing to do anything to protect her independence. Her strategy so far for ridding herself of burdensome suitors has been this: anyone who wants to marry her needs to solve three riddles. One wrong answer costs her prospective groom his life. Hundreds of men try their luck and fall victim to Turandot’s violent despotism. But then comes one man who can solve the riddles.

Giacomo Puccini’s last opera, »Turandot«, was never finished. Until his death, the composer never found a satisfying setting for the concluding love scene. Only after his friend, the Italian composer Franco Alfano, completed the finale we know today, basing it on Puccini’s sketches, did the opera have its world premiere in April 1926 at the Scala in Milan – and became a ground-breaking success. In »Turandot«, Puccini uses a previously unknown colour palette of East Asian melodies in the orchestral part and seeks to recreate the sounds of the ancient Chinese Empire. The director Philipp Stölzl, who in addition to operas and plays has directed feature films, television adverts and music videos, contributes a surreal visual language influenced by Dark Romanticism.

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Crew

Ensemble