Andreas Etter
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The Chinese princess Turandot wants to remain aloof and therefore confronts all suitors with a deadly conundrum. Only the foreign prince Kalaf solves the riddles and melts Turandot's icy heart...
For Taiwanese director Huan-Hsiung Li, Puccini's opera is a political, historical and cultural fairy tale for adults, which he tells in the form of a dream. Her dream drifts back to the ancient Yuan dynasty, recreated with meticulous detail in Hsuan-Wu Lai's costumes.
