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

Admin

Opera Carolina

Mise en scène

Jay Lesenger

Direction d'orchestre

James Meena

Lumières

Michael Baumgarten

Costumes

Allison Collins

Maquillage

Martha Ruskai

Chanteur

Soprano

Amy Shoremount-Obra

La Princesse Turandot

Ténor

Dario Di Vietri

Calaf

Basse

James Eder

Timur

Jennifer Forni

Liù

Baryton

Jeffrey McEvoy

Ping

Zachary Taylor

Pang

Johnathan White

Pong

John Fortson

Un mandarin

Elliott Brown

L'Empereur Altoum

Logan Webber

Orchestra

Opera Carolina Orchestra

italien

Turandot

Charlotte

États-Unis

Belk Theater

Turandot Puccini

Public

Sushant Karmakar

anglais

Valide

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.

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