Organization

Singer

Soprano

Dragana Radakovic

Turandot

Tenor

Paolo Lardizzone

Calaf

Bass

Ondrej Mráz

Timur

Patrícia Malovec

Liù

Peter Račko

Pong

Baritone

Marek Pobuda

A Mandarin

Conductor

Igor Bulla

Stage director

Dominik Beneš

Chorus master

Iveta Popovičová

Set designer

Eva Jiříkovská

Costume designer

Dramaturge

Alžbeta Lukáčová

Jozef Graf

The Emperor Altoum

Šimon Svitok

Ping

Tomáš Dedič

Pang

State Opera Banská Bystrica

Italian

Banská Bystrica

Slovakia

Štátna Opera

Turandot Puccini

Public

Slovak

Approved

The last opera of the great magician of Italian opera is one of his most sought-after works. Puccini took great care in choosing his subject - he wanted it to be dramatic, but it allowed the use of exotics, fantasy and illusion as a background for a great love story. He found all this in a story that had been used several times before as a theme for operas - but it became the most famous thanks to Schiller's dramatization and C. Gozzi's fairy tale play about the Chinese princess Turandot. Puccini's exotic theme inspired him to use motifs of traditional Chinese music and its sonority. He managed to create a monumental, fantastic and at the same time passionate opera. He tried to use other musical means, such as in his previous opera Madama Butterfly, also inspired by the Far East. The composer suffered from a serious illness during the composition, which he finally succumbed to before completing the work. However, he left sketches of his other musical ideas, thanks to which the opera could be reconstructed and completed by F. Alfan. It was presented as a complete three-story work in 1926 in Milan's La Scale. Music production: Igor Bulla Conductor: Igor Bulla Director: Dominik Beneš Choirmaster: Iveta Popovičová Movement collaboration: Roberta Dinová Stage: Eva Jiřikovská Costumes: Eva Jiřikovská Lighting design: Marek Červienka Libretto: Giuseppe Adami, Renato Simoni Dramaturgy: Alžbeta Lukáčihová Turandová , Dragana Radakovic Altoum: Jozef Gráf, Igor Pasek Timur: Ivan Zvarík, Ondrej Mráz Calaf: Paolo Lardizzone, Hector Mendoza Liu: Katarína Procházková, Patrícia Malovec, Michaela Kušteková Ping: Martin Popovič, Šimon Svitok Pang: Michal Hýrošš, Tomáš Dedič Pong: Peter Račko,

The last opera of the great magician of Italian opera is one of his most sought-after works. Puccini took great care in choosing his subject - he wanted it to be dramatic, but it allowed the use of exotics, fantasy and illusion as a background for a great love story. He found all this in a story that had been used several times before as a theme for operas - but it became the most famous thanks to Schiller's dramatization and C. Gozzi's fairy tale play about the Chinese princess Turandot. Puccini's exotic theme inspired him to use motifs of traditional Chinese music and its sonority. He managed to create a monumental, fantastic and at the same time passionate opera. He tried to use other musical means than in his previous opera Madama Butterfly, also inspired by the Far East. During the composition, the composer suffered from a serious illness, which he finally succumbed to before completing the work. However, he left sketches of his other musical ideas, thanks to which the opera could be reconstructed and completed by F. Alfan. It was presented as a complete three-story work in 1926 in Milan's La Scale

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