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07/12/2023 Music 2h 21m
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Wiener Staatsoper

Overview

Director Claus Guth heightens the surrealism of this initially extremely cruel fairy tale, which he prefers to see as a »parable«, into the grotesque. Guth sees Calaf, son of the fugitive Tartar king Timur, »thrown into a world that he cannot understand«. It is a system that functions according to its own logic: Princess Turandot, in order to protect herself, has built a bureaucratic apparatus around her that is as brutal as it is effective. For director Claus Guth, it is clear that Turandot is describing her own experience when she speaks of the terrible things done to her ancestor Lu-o-lin; the terror state is her reaction. The stage by Etienne Pluss, the costumes by Ursula Krdina and the choreography by Sommer Ulricksen show it from the outside as well as the inside - and also its decay, which is the necessary prerequisite for Turandot and Calaf's happy ending.

  1. Claus Guth

    Director

  2. Giacomo Puccini

    Writer

Top billed cast

  1. Asmik Grigorian

    Turandot

  2. Jonas Kaufmann

    Calaf

  3. Kristina Mkhitaryan

    Liu

  4. Jörg Schneider

    Altoum

  5. Dan Paul Dumitrescu

    Timur

  6. Martin Häßler

    Ping

  7. Norbert Ernst

    Pang

  8. Hiroshi Amako

    Pong

  9. Marco Armiliato

    Conductor

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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