Giacomo Puccini: Turandot
Staging team
- Conductor: E. Dovico, R. Hein
- Stage director: V. Vežník
- Set designer: L. Vychodil
- Costume designer: J. Jelínek
- Choreography: O. Šanda
- Chorus master: T. Karlovič
- Assistant director: L. Cukr, P. Jirsa
Cast
- Conductor: R. Hein, E. Dovico
- Unknown prince (Kalaf), his son: I. Jan, M. Zhang
- Turandot, Chinese princess: A.-L. Bogza, M. Hundeling, J. Derilova, M. Málková
- Liu, young slave: J. Burgetová, L. Vernerová, S. Procházková
- Timur, banished Tartar king: M. Bürger, O. Korotkov, L. Mlejnek
- Emperor Altoum, her father: L. Havlák, N. Višnjakov
- Ping, emperor’s minister: O. Kříž, M. Cavalcanti
- Pang, emperor’s minister: R. Samek, T. Kořínek
- Pong, emperor’s minister: J. Moravec, O. Socha
- Persian prince: R. Samek, T. Kořínek, J. Moravec, O. Socha
- Mandarin: M. Horák, J. Brückler
Turandot is the last opera by G. Puccini, who died shortly before finishing it. He found the theme in Schiller’s dramatisation of Carlo Gozzi’s Persian fairy-tale (originally a tale from the collection of dervish Mokles’ Thousand and One Nights) about a Chinese princess. The opera contains absorbing, highly dramatic scenes between the cruel princess Turandot and prince Kalaf. Puccini’s effort to achieve the truest possible Chinese vocal colour is strengthened by the use of pentatonics as the basic form of Chinese tonal system, easing the rhythm and often changing time, which is characteristic for the Chinese conception of music.
Premiere: Sep 15, 1995
Response in the press
“This production can take its place as one of the most compelling evenings in Prague.”
(Michael Halstead, The Prague Post, October 4, 1995)
Turandot on the SOP schedule
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03. 13. 2010 at 19:00
G. Puccini: La Bohème
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03. 14. 2010 at 14:00
G. Verdi: Aida
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03. 16. 2010 at 19:00
S. Prokofiev: Cinderella
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