Turandot - Opera Film, June 26, 2022 1:30PM

Item details

Date

June 26, 2022 1:30PM

Location

Sarasota Opera House

Name

Turandot - Opera Film

Description

Puccini died before he was able to complete Turandot, leaving in his wake some 30 sketches for the ending and a note that indicated a proposed dramatic shift into the realms of love with the words “and now Tristan”.

This new La Scala Turandot marked the first time the opera was performed in Milan with the finale devised by Luciano Berio, replacing Alfano’s traditional ending. Starring Nina Stemme, Aleksandr Antonenko and Maria Agresta, conducted by Riccardo Chailly. “Incorporating 23 of Puccini’s sketches into his own material, the Berio proved a revelation.” (Bachtrack)

“A specific feature of Lehnhoff’ staging is certainly the handling of the ministers’ trio. Ping, Pong and Pang are no mere accessory to the play […] Lehnhoff conceives the ministers halfway between clowns coming out of a circus and characters taken from a DreamWorks animation movie […] which is quite appropriate to the tragicomic blend of this play. (Opera Online).

The performance has sublime figurative elegance, is well designed and stylized in its movements and costumes and flooded with vibrant reds and majestic purples. Nina Stemme takes the title role with her “powerful, luxuriant voice” and “blazing high notes” (New York Times).

Opera in 3 acts

Third act in Luciano Berio’s edition

Libretto by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni

Sung in Italian

Recorded May 1^st, 2015 from Teatro Alla Scala, Milan

Duration: DCP in one part, duration is 02:54:40.

Includes: Interview (13 min 30 s): 00:00:08-00:13:38

Intermission (19 min 25 s): 00:56:22-01:15:47

 

 

CREATIVE TEAM

Conductor                          Riccardo Chailly

Director                              Nikolaus Lehnhoff

Sets                                     Raimund Bauer

Costumes                           Andrea Schmidt-Futterer

Lights                                  Duane Schhuler

Choreographer                  Denni Sayers

 

ARTISTIC TEAM

Turandot                            Nina Stemme

Altoum                               Carlo Bosi                                                         
Timur                                  Alexander Tsymbalyuk                                   
Calaf                                    Aleksandrs Antonenko                                   

Liù                                       Maria Agresta     

Ping                                      Angelo Veccia

Pang                                     Roberto Covatta

Pong                                    Blagoj Nacoski

A Mandarin                        Robert Bork

First Maidservant              Barbara Rita Lavarian

Second Maidservant         Kjersti Odegaard