Turandot

Turandot - Robert Wilson

• Conductor

  Marco Armiliato; Michele Spotti; Ching-Lien Wu

• Music

  Giacomo Puccini
  (1858 -1924)

• 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

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.

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

Turandot

Turandot - Robert Wilson

• Turandot

  Anna Pirozzi

• Calaf

  Brian Jagde

• Liù

  Ermonela Jaho

• Altoum

  Carlo Bosi

• Timur

  Mika Kares

• Ping

  Florent Mbia

• Pang

  Maciej Kwaśnikowski

• Pong

  Nicholas Jones

• Un mandarino

  Guilhem Worms

• Il Principe di Persia

  Hyun-Jong Roh

• Due ancelle

  Pranvera Lehnert Ciko

• Isabelle Wnorowska-Pluchart