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

Casts

Conductor Asher Fisch   
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 Lise Lindstrom   
L'imperatore Altoum Ulrich Reß   
Timur, Re tartaro spodestato Goran Jurić   
Il principe ignoto (Calaf) Yonghoon Lee   
Liù Anita Hartig   
Ping Markus Eiche   
Pang Kevin Conners   
Pong Emanuele D'Aguanno   
Il principe di Persia Francesco Petrozzi