Organization

Conductor

Conductor (+1)

Rafael Payare

Stage director

Stage director (+2)

Philipp Stölzl

Set designer

Lighting designer

Costume designer

Ursula Kudrna

Irene Selka

Choreographer

Choreographer (+1)

Christopher Tölle

Soprano

Liudmyla Monastyrska

Turandot

Tenor (+2)

Florian Hoffmann

The Emperor Altoum

Bass (+4)

René Pape

Timur

Soprano (+1)

Adriana González

Liù

Baritone (+3)

Gyula Orendt

Ping

Tenor (+3)

Andrés Moreno García

Pang

Tenor

Siyabonga Maqungo

Pong

Baritone (+4)

Adam Kutny

A Mandarin

Staatsoper Unter den Linden ( State Opera Berlin )

Chorus

Staatsopernchor Berlin

Orchestra

Staatskapelle Berlin

Kinderchor der Staatsoper Berlin

Assistant Stage Director

Philipp M. Krenn

Franziska Harm

Arsen Soghomonyan

Calaf

Staatsoper Unter den Linden

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.

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Berlin

Germany

Turandot Puccini

Staged

Opera

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TURANDOT von/by Giacomo PucciniPremiere JUNE 18TH, 2022Staatsoper Unter den LindenMUSIKALISCHE LEITUNG / MUSICAL DIRECTOR Zubin MehtaINSZENIERUNG / DIRECTOR ...

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