Overview

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.

Top Cast

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Ingela Brimberg

Turandot

Chris Merritt

Altoum

L

Liang Li

Timur

Teodor Ilincai

Calaf

Francesca Dotto

Liù

Simone del Savio

Ping

S

Sam Furness

Pang

J

Julien Henric

Pong

M

Michael Mofidian

Un Mandarino

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Antonino Fogliani

Self - Conductor