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Turandot

12/07/2023

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2hrs 21min

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Music

Wiener Staatsoper

STORY

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.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Asmik Grigorian
  • Jonas Kaufmann
  • Kristina Mkhitaryan
  • Jörg Schneider
  • Dan Paul Dumitrescu

    Director

  • Claus Guth

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Wiener Staatsoper

    Production Countries

LANGUAGES

    Cast

    Asmik Grigorian

    Turandot

    Jonas Kaufmann

    Calaf

    Kristina Mkhitaryan

    Liu

    Jörg Schneider

    Altoum

    Dan Paul Dumitrescu

    Timur

    Martin Häßler

    Ping

    Norbert Ernst

    Pang

    Hiroshi Amako

    Pong