Giacomo Puccini
Libretto by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni

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.

In Italian with German surtitles

This performance will be broadcast live on STAATSOPER.TV.



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Cast

Conductor Marco Armiliato
Production Carlus Padrissa – La Fura dels Baus
Set Roland Olbeter
Costumes Chu Uroz
Video Franc Aleu
Lighting Urs Schönebaum
Dramaturgy Andrea Schönhofer
Rainer Karlitschek
Chorus Sören Eckhoff

La principessa Turandot Iréne Theorin
L'imperatore Altoum Ulrich Reß
Timur, Re tartaro spodestato Alastair Miles
Il principe ignoto (Calaf) Yonghoon Lee
Liù Serena Farnocchia
Ping Markus Eiche
Pang Alexander Kaimbacher
Pong Emanuele D'Aguanno
Un mandarino Goran Jurić
Il principe di Persia Francesco Petrozzi

The Bavarian State Orchestra
The Chorus of the Bavarian State Opera

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