Organization

Admin

Bavarian State Opera

Conductor

Conductor (+2)

Antonino Fogliani

Stage director

Stage director (+4)

Carlus Padrissa

Set designer

Set designer (+2)

Roland Olbeter

Costume designer

Costume designer (+1)

Chu Uroz

Video

Video (+3)

Franc Aleu

Lighting designer

Lighting designer (+2)

Urs Schönebaum

Chorusmaster

Chorusmaster (+1)

Christoph Heil

Tenor (+6)

Kevin Conners

The Emperor Altoum

Tenor

Yonghoon Lee

Calaf

Soprano

Selene Zanetti

Liù

Baritone (+3)

Thomas Mole

Ping

Tansel Akzeybek

Pang

Andrés Agudelo

Pong

Bass (+5)

Bálint Szabó

A Mandarin

The Prince of Persia

Chorus

Bayerische Staatsoper Children Chorus

La Fura dels Baus

Dramaturge

Andrea Schönhofer

Rainer Karlitschek

Orchestra

Bavarian State Orchestra

Bayerische Staatsoper Chorus

Saioa Hernández

Turandot

Nationaltheater Munich

Extras

Bayerischen Staatsoper Extrachorus

Bass (+2)

Vitalij Kowaljow

Timur

The people are thirsty for blood. Another suitor for the hand of the sovereign is about to be publicly beheaded, because Princess Turandot is determined never to belong to any man. That’s why anyone who wants to marry her must first solve three riddles. Anyone who fails has to pay with his life. An unknown prince, revolted by Turandot’s cruelty, yet attracted by her beauty, takes on this potentially lethal risk – and solves the riddles. But has he awakened the ice-cold, man-murdering sovereign to love and put an end to her barbarity?

Turandot is Giacomo Puccini’s final opera. He died at a point in time when he had come upon a thus far unsolved dramaturgical problem with his composition. The princess was to be the counter draft to the anti-feminism at the fin-de-siècle.  But how to depict the transformation of the man-murderer to a loving woman? Puccini left the final love scene between Turandot and Calaf fragmentary.

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