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Turandot - Geneva

2022

A visually striking, musically rich staging that feels cold and unsettling, with a dystopian edge that keeps you alert and moved.

Directed by
Daniel Kramer
Genres
Music
Starring
Ingela Brimberg, Chris Merritt, Liang Li
Overview
Puccini’s last opera is all about riddles. The Emperor of China rules over the Forbidden City of Peking. His unmarried daughter, the Princess Turandot, has refused her hand to all her princely suitors by putting them to a test. She sets them three riddles; if they do not answer them correctly, they will lose their heads. As unlucky suitors fail and fall, up steps Calaf, a prince of the Tatar people. Daniel Kramer’s new staging in Geneva transposes the old fairy tale to a futuristic world where Turandot’s magic holds sway. In a dystopian game show, reminiscent of Hunger Games, the Princess presides over a surveillance state in which men are culled and the reproduction of the human race is conducted in breeding labs.

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Directed by
Daniel Kramer
Genres
Music
Starring
Ingela Brimberg, Chris Merritt, Liang Li
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Tone
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • eeriestrength 2 of 3
  • romanticstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • power
  • obsession
  • death
  • identity
  • fate
Places
  • big city
  • fantasy world
Era
near-future
Audience
adult
Form
  • musical
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
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Action2
Horror3
Humour1
Realism3
Romance4
Tension7
Darkness7
Complexity7
Emotional weight7

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