TURANDOT

an opera in three acts and five scenes
music by Giacomo Puccini
libretto by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni based on the theatrical fairy tale of the same name by Carlo Gozzi
featuring Caterina Meldolesi, Gerardo Dell’Affetto, Baopeng Wang, Roberto Aronica/Eduardo Niave, Songha Lee, Paolo Ingrasciotta, Giulio Putrino, Giacomo Leone, Francesco La Gattuta, Marco Tomasoni, Jenny Cappelloni, Federica Miani
conductor Alessandro D’Agostini
director, set and costume design Nadir Dal Grande
OperaLombardia Choir
I Pomeriggi Musicali Orchestra
Children’s Choir of the Teatro Sociale in Como
co-production Teatri di OperaLombardia, Teatro del Giglio Giacomo Puccini in Lucca, Fondazione Teatro Carlo Coccia in Novara

Thursday 7 January 2027, 6.00 pm | Music Hall – Donizetti Theatre AN INDESTRUCTIBLE FRAGMENTAround TURANDOT Virgilio Bernardoni (University of Bergamo, President of the Giacomo Puccini Study Centre in Lucca) in conversation with Paolo Fabbri (Director of the Donizetti Studies Centre at the Donizetti Theatre Foundation) with visual material curated by Clelia Epis and Maurizio Merisio To mark the centenary of its premiere, Turandot by Giacomo Puccini will be staged. Set in a fictionalised China, the opera depicts the conflict between the icy princess and the hero who seeks to win her heart by solving the three riddles set before…