TURANDOT

an opera by Giacomo Puccini
Libretto Giuseppe Adami, Renato Simoni
After the eponymous tale by Carlo Gozzi
Coproduction with the Stara Zagora State Puppet Theater

Directors Ognyan Draganov, Darin Petkov
Conductor Vladimir Boshnakov
Scenography and Costumes Catalin Ionescu-Arbore /Romania/
Vasil Rokomanov and Silva Bachvarova
Art Lighting Vasko Lisichov / Macedonia/
Plasticity Hze Fu-Chen /Taiwan/

Turandot /Chinese princess/ – Dragana Radakovic
Altoum /Chinese emperor/ – Simeon Simeonov
Timur /dethrone Tartarian king/– Julian Kostadinov
Calaf – Dario di Vietri
Liu /slave/ – Tsvetelina Vasileva
Ping /a great minister/ – Ivan Kabamitov
Pang /a great advisor/ – Georgi Dinev
Pong /a great head/ – Ivaylo Yovchev
Mandarin – Ivan Kabamitov
The prince of Persia – Oleksander Dimitrov

Actors from the Stara Zagora State Puppet Theater
Soloists, Choir, Ballet and Orchestra of the Stara Zagora State Opera
Vocal formation of the Children’s and Adolescents’ School for Opera and Ballet “Margaritki”/”Daisies”/ led by Zornitsa Zhelyazkova
Proto-Bulgarian Survival School ”Baga-Tur”

The director’s solution presents the turning of Turandot from a child into a woman. The Chinese princess perceives the world around her as in a play with dolls. She suddenly encounters love and this clash with reality makes her existence impossible. In the same way the human personages in the action have an intriguing dialogue with the dolls – a specific synthesis of personages, situations, relations… Thus the Chinese tale gets filled with lots of plasticity, dance and bright art decoration, in which through the dolls there comes to life the whole wealth of the human feelings, virtues and flaws.

Duration: 2 hours 45 minutes with two intervals
Performed in Italian with titles in Bulgarian
Premiere: 29 March 2018