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Turandot’s dates always end with a funeral. To avoid tying the knot with one or other stranger, she lays down a terrible rule: Anyone seeking her hand must solve three riddles. Three right answers will result in marriage, a single error in death by beheading. Blinded by his love for the emperor’s daughter, the mysterious Prince Calaf takes up the challenge.

Giacomo Puccini died in Brussels in 1924, leaving the score of his last opera unfinished. A century later, conductor Kazushi Ono and director Christophe Coppens prove that the work has more to offer than its iconic aria ‘Nessun dorma’. Coppens sets Turandot in present-day Hong Kong, where an immensely rich family is losing itself in money, power and violence. Trying to escape her mother’s iron grip, the rebellious Turandot finds herself in a maelstrom of derailed fantasy that drives her to extremes.

CAST

Conductor KAZUSHI ONO / OURI BRONCHTI
Director & Costume Designer CHRISTOPHE COPPENS

Set Designer CHRISTOPHE COPPENS & I.S.M.ARCHITECTEN
Lighting Designer PETER VAN PRAET
Dramaturge REINDER POLS
Chorus Master EMMANUEL TRENQUE

La Principessa Turandot EWA VESIN / SVETLANA AKSENOVA
L’Imperatore Altoum NING LIANG
Timur MICHELE PERTUSI
Il Principe Ignoto (Calaf) STEFANO LA COLLA / AMADI LAGHA
Liù VENERA GIMADIEVA / RUTH INIESTA
Ping / Un Mandarino LEON KOŠAVIĆ
Pang ALEXANDER MAREV °
Pong VALENTIN THILL

° MM Soloist

La Monnaie Symphony Orchestra, Chorus and Choral Academy
La Monnaie Children's and Youth Choirs, led by Benoît Giaux

Production LA MONNAIE
With support from LOTERIE NATIONALE

In co-production with Shelter Prod and Prospero MM Productions, with the support of Taxshelter.be and ING
With the support of the Belgian Federal Government's Tax Shelter

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