AES+F To Reimagine Puccini’s ‘Turandot’
By Francisco SalazarThe Russian multidisciplinary artist collective AES+F, together with Italian director Fabio Cherstich are set to showcase a new vision for Puccini’s “Turandot.”
The new production, set to open on Jan. 19, 2019 at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, will travel to the Teatro Comunale di Bologna in May, with more dates and theaters to follow.
The new production will showcase AES+F’s visual language transposed to the vocabulary of theater, with the artists creating an innovative stage design, including large-scale video installations, and costumes. The setting of the work will be re-imagined to a globalized future, refusing all stereotypical ethnic characterizations in costumes and makeup, and hinting at a hybrid and diverse future society. Audiences will be transported to Beijing in 2070 in a futuristic metropolis with biomorphic architecture within an artificial landscape.
In a press release Cherstich noted, “I believe my task, as a director is to help the audience travel in time. In doing so I had the luck of working with AES+F, an artists’ collective whose radically contemporary, non-conformist visions helped break through some stereotypes in my understanding of what opera can be.”
The production is co-produced by the Teatro Massimo, Palermo and Lakhta Center, Saint Petersburg, with Badisches Staatstheater, Karlsruhe, and Teatro Comunale, Bologna.
The opera will star Tatiana Melnychenko and Astrik Khanamiryan in the title role while Brian Jagde and Carlo Ventre will sing the role of Calaf.
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