Opera Open

Puccini

Turandot

The opera's story is set in China and involves Prince Calàf, who falls in love with the cold Princess Turandot. To obtain permission to marry her, a suitor has to solve three riddles; any wrong answer results in death.

Details

Duration 120 Minutes

Language Italian

Subtitles Bulgarian English

The production by Nina Naydenova takes the audience to ancient Beijing during a magical, undefined time, where Eastern beauty and extravagance meet bloody cruelty, blending reality with symbolism. The beautiful Turandot has declared that she will marry anyone who can answer three of her riddles, but anyone who tries and fails will lose their life. Calàf successfully answers the riddles, but Turandot still refuses to marry him. In his desperation, he offers her a deal: if she can find out his name before dawn the next day, he will sacrifice himself and die at sunrise.

Conductor - Jacopo Sipari di Pescasseroli
Director Nina Naydenova

Set designer Boris Stoinov
Costume designer – Tsvetanka Petkova-Stoinova
Video designer Petko Tanchev
Choreographer – Boryana Sechanova
Chorus conductor Dragomir Yosifov
Concertmaster Balazs Schwartz

Turandot         Lilla Lee
Calaf               Alejandro Roy
Liu                   Evgenia Ralcheva
Timur              Aleksander Nossikov
Pang                Aleksander Baranov
Pong                Mark Fowler
Ping                 Teodor Petkov
Emperor         Momchil Karaivanov

Orchestra, Choir and Ballet of Opera Plovdiv