Turandot <br>Opera by Giacomo Puccini | teamLab

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2023.02.23(Thu) - 02.26(Sun)Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, Tokyo
Directed by Daniel Kramer with Scenography by teamLab, a new production of Puccini's opera Turandot to be performed in Tokyo, following the Geneva world premiere.
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既往展览
2023.02.23(Thu) - 02.26(Sun)Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, Tokyo
Directed by Daniel Kramer with Scenography by teamLab, a new production of Puccini's opera Turandot to be performed in Tokyo, following the Geneva world premiere.

TURANDOT
OPERA BY GIACOMO PUCCINI


Sculptural Space of Light Creates an Immersive Operatic Experience, Transcending the Notion of Opera


Art collective teamLab made its scenographic debut with a new production of Giacomo Puccini’s final, unfinished opera Turandot. teamLab worked extensively with Stage Director Daniel Kramer to envisage scenography that would unite Kramer’s interpretation of Turandot and teamLab’s art. The project evolved over five years, during which Kramer and teamLab discussed ideas and explored concepts, new interpretations, metaphor, and symbolism, along with how the visual expression of each scene would be realized. The cast is immersed and unified in the sculptural space of light, and the stage and audience become continuous without boundaries.


The production had its world premiere at the Grand Théâtre de Genève in Geneva, Switzerland, in June 2022. The Tokyo performance, presented by the Tokyo Nikikai Opera, will take place from February 23 to 26, 2023.



This is a gigantic, thrilling piece of opera, conceived with teamLab - whose technology does not belong in the normal opera house! To be able to work with teamLab and Puccini - at his best, at the end of his life, the last notes he wrote as a human being, an artist truly at his height of his wisdom - it is an incredible opportunity to do this art form that we committed our lives to on the largest global scale possible. Let us give people the most unbelievable Turandot of their lives. We need new opera audiences now more than ever - and this opera makes the young audiences say ‘I didn’t know opera could do that!’

ー Daniel Kramer

OVERVIEW


Puccini’s last opera is all about riddles. In the Forbidden City of Peking rules the Emperor of China. His unmarried daughter, the Princess Turandot, has been refusing her hand to all her princely suitors by putting them to a test. She gives them three riddles: if they do not answer them correctly, they have their heads chopped off. Scores of unlucky suitors have already failed and lost their heads in the attempt. It is now the turn of Calaf, a prince of the Tatar people, who is fascinated by Turandot’s glory. To everyone’s astonishment, he answers Turandot’s three questions correctly: first, hope; then, blood and, finally, Turandot herself. The princess is his for the taking, as promised by the Emperor. Turandot, however, is reluctant to keep the promise.


Puccini broke off his composition of Turandot in the third act. The maestro died in 1924 before finishing the final duet and it was his assistant Alfano who completed the score. The first performance of the work and its world premiere at Milan’s La Scala in 1926 was a kind of requiem for Puccini. Arturo Toscanini conducted the work up to the last notes left by Puccini and then put down his baton with the words: “Here ends the master’s work. After that, he died”. 


Alfano’s finale became the norm in opera houses throughout the world, without ever really being completely accepted. For this reason, the musical editor Ricordi commissioned a new, less bombastic, finale from the greatest living Italian composer of that time. Luciano Berio’s finale, created in 2002, will be performed in Geneva for the first time ever in Switzerland. 


Daniel Kramer’s new staging transposes the old fairy tale to a futuristic world where Turandot’s magic and power hold sway. In a dystopian game show, reminiscent of Hunger Games, the regime of the woman who refuses to become one institutes a surveillance state in which men are culled and the reproduction and breeding of the human species is conducted in a mechanical facility. The US-born director harks back to the archaic essentials of the battle between the sexes. 


For the first time in their career, the famous international art collective teamLab will be working extensively on the scenography of an opera, using state-of-the-art visual technologies never before been seen on an opera stage. teamLab’s light creations have been on show all over the world; they create an immersive artistic experience that absorbs and enthrals the audience in its avant-gardist visual flux. 


ー Grand Théâtre de Genève


Daniel Kramer (Stage Director), teamLab Adam Booth (Scenography), and Antonino Fogliani (Musical Director) present the new production of Turandot.
*Video from the Grand Théâtre de Genève performance


teamLab Art Director Adam Booth speaks about the collective’s scenography.
*Video from the Grand Théâtre de Genève performance


Stage Director Daniel Kramer explains his vision of Puccini's work.
*Video from the Grand Théâtre de Genève performance

Watch on YouTube - More Turandot videos from the Geneva performance

Composer Giacomo Puccini 
Musical Director Diego Matheuz

Stage Director Daniel Kramer
Scenography, Digital and Light Art teamLab
Stage Design teamLab Architects
Costumes Kimie Nakano
Lighting Designer Simon Trottet
Choreographer Tim Claydon
Associate Stage Director Derek Walker
Chorus Nikikai Chorus Group
Orchestra New Japan Philharmonic


Co-production: Grand Théâtre de Genève, Tokyo Nikikai Opera

参观指南

会场信息

Turandot
Opera by Giacomo Puccini

展期

2023.02.23(Thu) - 02.26(Sun)

开馆时间

Thursday, February 23
18:00

Friday, February 24
14:00

Saturday, February 25
14:00

Sunday, February 26
14:00

* House opens 60 min before curtain
* Estimated run time: 2 hrs 45 min (including intermission)

交通指南

地址

Tokyo Bunka Kaikan
Main Hall
5-45 Ueno Koen, Taito-ku, Tokyo

地址用当地语言:

東京文化会館
大ホール
東京都台東区上野公園5-45
By Train
By JR 1-minute walk from the Park Gate of the JR Ueno Station Trains stopping at the JR Ueno Station: Yamanote Line, Keihin Tohoku Line, Joban/Narita Line, Joban Line, Takasaki Line, Tohoku Line Tohoku/Hokkaido Shinkansen, Akita Shinkansen, Yamagata Shinkansen, Joetsu Shinkansen, Hokuriku Shinkansen By Keisei Electric Railway 7-minute walk from the Main Entrance of the Keisei Ueno Station By Subway 5 minute-walk from the Exit 7 of the Tokyo Metro Ueno Station
By Car
From the Tokyo Inner Circular Route (Shuto Expressway), get off at the Ueno ramp way. *For visitors coming by car: There is no parking space available for the visitors in the Tokyo Bunka Kaikan. Please use parking lots and garages available around the Ueno Park. Taking public transportation is recommended to avoid the crowd around the Ueno Park especially during Sundays and national holidays. *For more information visit Tokyo Bunka Kaikan Access

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