Turandot

INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL “OPERALIA”

Giacomo Puccini

Turandot

Opera in 3 acts

Performed in Italian

(with synchronized Kazakh and Russian supertitles)

Running time: 2 hours 40 minutes (including two intervals)

Please note that the age limit is 10+

Management reserves the right to substitute artists

A poem by the 12th-century Persian classical poet Nizami, which lies at the heart of the libretto of the opera, was included in the 18^th century European collections of Persian fairy tales, from where the Italian playwright Carlo Gozzi took it for his “fairy tale for the theatre”. Libretto by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni.

The plot is intriguing: Princess Turandot, a fatal beauty, makes her suitors to solve three riddles. The prettiest of women’s hand in marriage is promised to the one who happens to find the right answers, any wrong answer results in immediate death. Prince Calaf decides to win Turandot’s heart at any cost...

The intrigue will be revealed by the director Davide Livermore, who has forged his outstanding 22 year career both on the main stages of Europe and at smaller theatres in his native country Italy, during which time he has been stage director, stage designer, costume and lighting designer, singer, dancer, actor, scriptwriter and teacher. He has worked together with artists such as Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo, José Carreras, Mirella Freni, and with many renowned directors including Luca Ronconi, Andrei Tarkovsky and Zhang Yimou, as well as with the world star maestro Zubin Mehta.

LEAD ROLES AND PERFORMERS

Turandot:        Zhupar GABDULLINA, Honoured Worker of Kazakhstan  

                        Bibigul ZHANUZAK, Honoured Worker of Kazakhstan

Liù:                 Saltanat AKHMETOVA, Honoured Worker of Kazakhstan   

                            Nazym SAGYNTAY

Calaf:              Mikhail PIROGOV, Honoured Artist of the Republic of Buryatia  

                        Medet CHOTABAYEV, Honoured Worker of Kazakhstan

Altoum:           Talgat ALLABIRINOV

Timur:             Sarkis BAZHBEUK-MELIKYAN (Armenia)

                        Talgat GALEYEV

Ping:                Rassul ZHARMAGAMBETOV, laureate of the State Youth Prize “Daryn”

                        Yerzhan SAIPOV

Pang:               Nursultan ANUARBEK  

                        Artur GABDIYEV

Pong:               Beimbet TANARYKOV

                        Ramzat BALAKISHIYEV

A Mandarin:    Shyngys RASSYLKHAN, laureate of the State Youth Prize “Daryn”

                        Dinmukhamed KOSHKINBAYEV

CHORUS, CHILDREN'S CHOIR, EXTRAS AND ORCHESTRA OF THE ASTANA OPERA HOUSE

PRODUCTION GROUP

Music Director and Conductor: Alan Buribayev, Honoured Worker of Kazakhstan, Laureate of the State Prize of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Conductors: Giuseppe Acquaviva

                    Alan Buribayev

Stage Director: Davide Livermore

Director’s Assistant: Gulsara Meirambekova

Assistant Stage Director: Yerenbak Toikenov

Set Designers: Sofia Tasmagambetova, Honoured Worker of Kazakhstan, Pavel Dragunov, Honoured Worker of Kazakhstan

Opera Company Director: Talgat Mussabayev, Honoured Worker of Kazakhstan

Chorus Master: Yerzhan Dautov, Honoured Worker of Kazakhstan

Lighting Designer:          Vincenzo Raponi

Projection Designer:       Carlo Camorali (D-wok Company)

Technical Project Manager: Victor Carare

Head of Children’s Choir: Altynganym Akhmetova

Stage Managers: Altynganym Akhmetova, Ainur Khalelova, Mansiya Yestekova

Tickets purchased at the Astana Opera are exchangeable and refundable only in cases of cancelled or postponed performances. In all other cases, no refunds and exchanges are possible.