Turandot

2025 / 2026                  Main Hall                  the 13th Season

20 February * Friday * 7.00 pm

21 February * Saturday * 5.00 pm

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:             Bibigul ZHANUZAK, Honoured Worker of Kazakhstan

                            Zhupar GABDULLINA, Honoured Worker of Kazakhstan  

                           

Liù:                      Madina ISLAMOVA

                            Yelena GANZHA

 

Calaf:                   Medet CHOTABAYEV, Honoured Worker of Kazakhstan

                            Sayan ISSIN

 

Altoum:               Talgat ALLABIRINOV

 

Timur:                 Sarkis BAZHBEUK-MELIKYAN (Armenia)

                            Talgat GALEYEV

 

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

                            Yerzhan SAIPOV

 

Pang:                    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 TEAM

 

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

Conductors: Giuseppe Acquaviva

Stage Director: Davide Livermore

 

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