Film

Turandot

2023 · 2h 21m · Music

Wiener Staatsoper

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.

Asmik Grigorian

Turandot

Jonas Kaufmann

Calaf

Kristina Mkhitaryan

Liu

Jörg Schneider

Altoum

Dan Paul Dumitrescu

Timur

Martin Häßler

Ping

Norbert Ernst

Pang

Hiroshi Amako

Pong

Marco Armiliato

Conductor

• Claus GuthDirector
• Giacomo PucciniWriter

Release date

December 7, 2023

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

2h 21m

Genres

Music