Turandot

Turandot (2023)

Music

Director Claus Guth heightens the surrealism of this initially extremely cruel fairy tale, which he prefers to see as a »parable«, into the grotesque. Guth sees Calaf, son of the fugitive Tartar king Timur, »thrown into a world that he cannot understand«. It is a system that functions according to its own logic: Princess Turandot, in order to protect herself, has built a bureaucratic apparatus around her that is as brutal as it is effective. For director Claus Guth, it is clear that Turandot is describing her own experience when she speaks of the terrible things done to her ancestor Lu-o-lin; the terror state is her reaction. The stage by Etienne Pluss, the costumes by Ursula Krdina and the choreography by Sommer Ulricksen show it from the outside as well as the inside - and also its decay, which is the necessary prerequisite for Turandot and Calaf's happy ending.

Director: Claus Guth

Casts

	Asmik Grigorian as Turandot
	Jonas Kaufmann as Calaf
	Kristina Mkhitaryan as Liu
	Jörg Schneider as Altoum
	Dan Paul Dumitrescu as Timur
	Martin Häßler as Ping
	Norbert Ernst as Pang
	Hiroshi Amako as Pong
	Marco Armiliato as Conductor

Crew