| Tuesday 30 June 2026 | 19:30 |
| Friday 03 July 2026 | 19:30 |
| Monday 06 July 2026 | 19:30 |
| Puccini, Giacomo (1858-1924) | Turandot | Libretto by Renato Simoni, Giuseppe Adami |
| Bavarian State Opera | ||
| Zubin Mehta | Conductor | |
| La Fura dels Baus | Director | |
| Roland Olbeter | Set Designer | |
| Chu Uroz | Costume Designer | |
| Urs Schöenbaum | Lighting Designer | |
| Bayerisches Staatsorchester | ||
| Bayerischer Staatsopernchor | ||
| Franc Aleu | Video | |
| Andrea Schönhofer | Dramaturgy | |
| Rainer Karlitschek | Dramaturgy | |
| Christoph Heil | Choirmaster / chorus director | |
| Sondra Radvanovsky | Soprano | Turandot |
| Yonghoon Lee | Tenor | Calaf |
| Golda Schultz | Soprano | Liù |
| Christian Van Horn | Bass-baritone | Timur |
| Kevin Conners | Tenor | Emperor Altoum |
| Vitor Bispo | Bass | Ping |
| Tansel Akzeybek | Tenor | Pang |
| Samuel Stopford | Tenor | Pong, The Prince of Persia |
| Bálint Szabó | Bass | Mandarin |
The people are thirsty for blood. Another suitor for the hand of the sovereign is about to be publicly beheaded, because Princess Turandot is determined never to belong to any man. That’s why anyone who wants to marry her must first solve three riddles. Anyone who fails has to pay with his life. An unknown prince, revolted by Turandot’s cruelty, yet attracted by her beauty, takes on this potentially lethal risk – and solves the riddles. But has he awakened the ice-cold, man-murdering sovereign to love and put an end to her barbarity?
Turandot is Giacomo Puccini’s final opera. He died at a point in time when he had come upon a thus far unsolved dramaturgical problem with his composition. The princess was to be the counter draft to the anti-feminism at the fin-de-siècle. But how to depict the transformation of the man-murderer to a loving woman? Puccini left the final love scene between Turandot and Calaf fragmentary.
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