Following Anthony Minghella’s Olivier Award-winning Madam Butterfly and Jonathan Miller’s 1930s-style La bohème, ENO continues to renew its core Puccini repertoire with a new production of the composer’s operatic swansong.
Directed by dynamic young theatre director Rupert Goold — fresh from his multi-award-winning Macbeth and record-breaking West End run of Oliver! — this darkly beautiful staging promises to be a Turandot for our times.
German soprano Kirsten Blanck makes her UK stage debut as the man-hating ‘ice princess’; Welsh tenor Gwyn Hughes Jones (Pinkerton in Minghella’s Butterfly) makes his role debut as the unknown prince whose death-defying passion solves the riddle of her tortured heart. Featuring the aria Nessun Dorma, Puccini’s most iridescently exotic score is conducted by ENO’s Olivier Award-winning Music Director, Edward Gardner.
Dates
Opened: 8th October 2009
Closes: 12th December 2009
Run Time: Two hours 40 minutes
Pre-performance talk by Sarah Lenton: Oct 16, 5.30pm, London Coliseum, £4
Pre-performance talk by Alexandra Wilson: Nov 21, 5.30pm, London Coliseum, £4
Sign-language interpreted performance: Wed 11th Nov
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