Name: Turandot
Start: 2024-04-18T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-04-21T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Belk Theater

Admin

Opera Carolina

Stage director

Jay Lesenger

Conductor

James Meena

Lighting designer

Michael Baumgarten

Costume designer

Allison Collins

Makeup artist

Martha Ruskai

Singer

Soprano

Amy Shoremount-Obra

Turandot

Tenor

Dario Di Vietri

Calaf

Bass

James Eder

Timur

Jennifer Forni

Liù

Baritone

Jeffrey McEvoy

Ping

Zachary Taylor

Pang

Johnathan White

Pong

John Fortson

A Mandarin

Elliott Brown

The Emperor Altoum

Logan Webber

Orchestra

Opera Carolina Orchestra

Italian

Charlotte

United States

Belk Theater

Turandot Puccini

Public

Sushant Karmakar

English

Approved

Turandot is Puccini’s final opera (unfinished at his death) and perhaps as a result, it is by far and away his most musically adventurous. As in Madama Butterfly, the score is filled with Asian touches, the percussion section in particular packed with gongs and various tuned instruments (xylophones, glockenspiels and the like). It is still, however, an Italian opera with the outrageously titled Ping, Pang and Pong a spin on classic Commedia dell’arte characters.

It’s an opera that blends epic chorus passages with some brilliantly intimate moments. Indeed the chorus plays a much more significant role than in Puccini’s other operas, acting as an onstage witness to well over half of the action. The opening is a powerful series of five chords, said musically to depict an executioner’s axe falling, and that hair-raising effect is spectacularly well maintained throughout.

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Crew

Ensemble