Turandot

Composer: Puccini, Giacomo

Librettist/Text Author: Simoni, Renato

Librettist/Text Author: Adami, Giuseppe

Conductor: Luisotti, Nicola

Orchestra: Madrid Teatro Real Orchestra

Chorus: Madrid Teatro Real Chorus

Chorus: Pequenos Cantores de la Jorcam

Il Principe Ignoto (Calaf): Kunde, Gregory

Imperatore Altoum: Gimenez, Raul

La Principessa Turandot: Theorin, Irene

Liu: Auyanet, Yolanda

Pang: Esteve, Vicenc

Ping: Martin-Royo, Joan

Pong: Sanabria, Juan Antonio

Timur: Mastroni, Andrea

Un Mandarino: Bullon, Gerardo

Set Designer: Wilson, Robert

Costume Designer: Reynaud, Jacques

Lighting Designer: Wilson, Robert

Stage Director: Wilson, Robert

Television Director: Sommer, Andy

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Date of Production: 12-2018

Venue: Teatro Real, Madrid

Playing Time: 02:02:07

Catalogue Number: BAC170

UPC: 3760115301702

Synopsis

Turandot

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Giacomo Puccini wrote what was supposed to be his last opera at a time where, riddled with disease and old age as he was, he felt like his own turmoil was reflected in the outside world: itself staggering, unsteady, overwhelmed and smashed by the chaos of European diplomacy. In spite of these obstacles, he persevered and worked until the very end of his life on this opera that he left unfinished but that proved to be a "way out" for him in many ways. Drawn from an ancient Persian epic from the 13th century, Turandot was indeed an excuse to escape into a new dramatic universe, one made of unexpected sounds and symbols. Here, in a world removed both geographically and chronologically from his own reality, he gave into the seductive powers of exoticism and eroticism, just as his own heroin Princess Turandot abandons herself to the mysteries of love and forgiveness.

After twenty years of absence, Puccini's Turandot was revived on the stage of the Teatro Real in a new production by American stage director Robert Wilson. One of the most important theatre and visual artist of our times, the director who gave life to Philip Glass's Einstein of the Beach and who reinvented Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande hadn't worked on a Puccini opera in twenty-five years, since his ground-breaking Madama Butterfly commissioned by the Paris Opera in 1993. This new encounter between his powerful visual universe and Puccini's evocative music was bound to be an outstanding event. Carried out by a brilliant cast of singers, dominated by Irene Theorin as Turandot, Gregory Kunde as Calaf and Yolanda Auyanet as Liu, this magnificent production is conducted by the Teatro Real's associate musical director Nicola Luisotti - and has been met with universal acclaim.