HANDA OPERA ON SYDNEY HARBOUR TURANDOT 2016

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HANDA OPERA ON SYDNEY HARBOUR
turandot 2016

A powerful lust meets an icy heart.
In a land of executioners, riddles and fear, can love conquer death?

– Music by Puccini

``The work is accessible to all audiences, even those unfamiliar with Opera. This is more than just a performance, it is an event that should be a must see for everyone``.

Broadway World

Turandot is a beautiful and powerful princess, who challenges her many suitors to answer three riddles on pain of death. No one has ever succeeded.

Calaf is a brave prince from a foreign land, who falls instantly in love with the princess. Despite the wishes of his exiled father and the pleas of a slave-girl who loves him, he rings the gong and declares his love for the princess. She presents her riddles, and in triumph, the unknown prince answers.

Turandot despairs and the prince takes pity — offering the ice-cold princess a riddle of his own. But Calaf’s riddle risks more than his own life — everyone else’s hangs in the balance.


cast & crew

Turandot Dragana Radakovic and Daria Masiero
Calàf Riccardo Massi and Arnold Rawls
Liù Mariana Hong and Eva Kong
Timur Conal Coad
Pong John Longmuir
Pang Benjamin Rasheed
Ping Luke Gabbedy
Emperor David Lewis
Mandarin Gennadi Dubinsky
Prince of Persia Jin Tea Kim and Dean Bassett

Conductor Brian Castles-Onion
Director and Choreographer Chen Shi-Zheng
Set and Costume Designer Dan Potra
Lighting Designer Scott Zielinski
Video Designer Leigh Sachwitz / flora&faunavisions
Sound Designer Tony David Cray
Site Designer Adrienn Lord
Video Designer Marco Devetak
Assistant Directors Andy Morton, Constantine Costi