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2023 / AROP evening / Opera
22 Nov.

Turandot

    Opéra Bastille

    19h30

    Duration
    2h30

    Dress Cocktail attire

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  • 1st part
    19h30
  • Intermission cocktail
    20h55
  • 2nd part
    21h25
  • End of the performance
    22h10
  • Supper
    22h15

In Peking, a princess renowned for her beauty submits her suitors to three riddles. The prince who manages to solve them will win her hand and the throne. Alas, so far, all have failed and suffered the implacable punishment: death. Will young Calaf succeed? Inspired by Carlo Gozzi's fable, itself drawing on several sources including the Thousand and One Nights, Puccini's last opera revives the oriental atmosphere already present in Madama Butterfly. But in 1924, the year in which the composer died leaving his score unfinished, his writing had grown in modernity, without losing any of its melodic inspiration, as illustrated by the famous aria "Nessun dorma". The references to Asia could not fail to appeal to Robert Wilson, whose aesthetic draws on Japanese Noh theatre. His sparse staging, interspersed with touches of commedia dell'arte, offers striking and hypnotic images.

Turandot

Turandot - Robert Wilson

  • Music

    Giacomo Puccini
    (1858 -1924)

  • Conductor
    Marco Armiliato
  • Conductor
    Michele Spotti
  • Chorus master
    Ching-Lien Wu

  • Libretto

    Giuseppe Adami

  • Libretto

    Renato Simoni

  • Director

    Robert Wilson

  • Co-stage director

    Nicola Panzer

  • Set and lighting design

    Robert Wilson

  • Set design

    Stephanie Engeln

  • Lighting design

    John Torres

  • Costume design

    Jacques Reynaud

  • Make-up

    Manu Halligan

  • Video

    Tomek Jeziorski

  • Dramaturgy

    José Enrique Macián

Cast

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Anna
Pirozzi

Turandot

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Brian
Jagde

Calaf

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Ermonela
Jaho

Liù

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Carlo
Bosi

Altoum

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Mika
Kares

Timur

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Florent
Mbia

Ping

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Maciej
Kwaśnikowski

Pang

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Nicholas
Jones

Pong

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Guilhem
Worms

Un mandarino

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Hyun-Jong
Roh

Il Principe di Persia

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Pranvera Lehnert
Ciko

Due ancelle

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Isabelle
Wnorowska-Pluchart

Paris Opera Orchestra and Chorus
Maîtrise des Hauts-de-Seine / Chœur d’enfants de l’Opéra national de Paris

A coproduction with the Teatro Real, Madrid, the Lithuanian national Opera and Ballet, Vilnius, the Canadian Opera Company, Toronto, and the Houston Grand Opera, Houston