Puccini’s last opera is all about riddles. The Emperor of China rules over the Forbidden City of Peking. His unmarried daughter, the Princess Turandot, has refused her hand to all her princely suitors by putting them to a test. She sets them three riddles; if they do not answer them correctly, they will lose their heads. As unlucky suitors fail and fall, up steps Calaf, a prince of the Tatar people. Daniel Kramer’s new staging in Geneva transposes the old fairy tale to a futuristic world where Turandot’s magic holds sway. In a dystopian game show, reminiscent of Hunger Games, the Princess presides over a surveillance state in which men are culled and the reproduction of the human race is conducted in breeding labs.
Daniel Kramer
Director
Ingela Brimberg
Turandot
Chris Merritt
Altoum
Liang Li
Timur
Teodor Ilincai
Calaf
Francesca Dotto
Liù
Simone del Savio
Ping
Sam Furness
Pang
Julien Henric
Pong
Michael Mofidian
Un Mandarino
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Battle of the Year67%
O'Dessa58%
Monster High: Boo York, Boo York77%
One Chance66%
Teen Spirit60%
Hounddog64%
Godspell66%
A Cinderella Story: If the Shoe Fits72%
Trolls World Tour72%
Arlo the Alligator Boy67%
Fantasia 200070%
Charming63%
Love Happy58%
Another Cinderella Story73%
Save the Last Dance65%
Clika80%
Song for Marion68%
Silk Stockings68%
Coyote Ugly62%
