Organization

Festival Puccini

Singer

Soprano

Rebeka Lokar

Turandot

Hanying Tso

Tenor

Vladimir Reutov

The Emperor Altoum

Bass

Alessandro Guerzoni

Timur

Davide Mura

Rudy Park

Calaf

Amadi Lagha

Francesca Cappelletti

Liù

Baritone

Mauro Buda

Ping

Ugo Tarquini

Pang

Tiziano Barontini

Pong

Claudio Ottino

A Mandarin

Carlotta Vichi

First handmaiden

Mezzo-soprano

Donatella De Caro

Second handmaiden

Conductor

Jacopo Sipari di Pescasseroli

Stage director

Enrico Stinchelli

Set designer

Ezio Frigerio

Costume designer

Franca Squarciapino

Orchestra

Puccini Festival Orchestra

Others

Puccini Festival

Torre del Lago Puccini

Italy

Teatro all'Aperto

In medieval China, Princess Turandot makes an astonishing announcement in front of the Forbidden City of Beijing: she will agree to marry anyone who can unravel her three enigmas. But his suitors play for everything: if they fail, they will be put to death. Having failed to solve the riddles, the prince of Persia will be executed at dusk ... Unfinished and rarely staged, Turandot is Giacomo Puccini's latest opera. For this meticulous composer, Turandot's writing proved to be a particularly long and tedious process. Puccini immersed himself in the creation of his last work, writing to a friend in March 1924 that he "poured [his] soul into this opera". Filmed outside at Torre del Lago Puccini, in the Italian province of Lucca, this spectacular version of Turandot is presented in a most striking setting.

Production booklet

Further reading