The Chinese princess Turandot wants to remain aloof and therefore confronts all suitors with a deadly conundrum. Only the foreign prince Kalaf solves the riddles and melts Turandot's icy heart...
For Taiwanese director Huan-Hsiung Li, Puccini's opera is a political, historical and cultural fairy tale for adults, which he tells in the form of a dream. Her dream drifts back to the ancient Yuan dynasty, recreated with meticulous detail in Hsuan-Wu Lai's costumes.
A co-production with the National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying), Taiwan
Turandot Ewa Vesin/Oksana Kramareva
Altoum Johannes Preißinger/Alexander Fedin
Timur Luke Stoker/Sami Luttinen
Kalaf Eduardo Aladrén/Andrea Shin
Liù Sylvia Hamvasi/Anke Krabbe/Luiza Fatyol
Ping Jake Muffett/Jorge Espino
Pang Jonathan Winell/Florian Simson
Pong Cornel Frey/Nathan Haller
Mandarin Richard Šveda/Stefan Heidemann
Prinz von Persien Shengwu Ou
Tänzerin Yasha Wang