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In Peking, a princess renowned for her beauty submits her suitors to three riddles. The prince who manages to solve them will win her hand and the throne. Alas, so far, all have failed and suffered the implacable punishment: death. Will young Calaf succeed?Inspired by Carlo Gozzi's fable, itself drawing on several sources including the Thousand and One Nights, Puccini's last opera revives the oriental atmosphere already present in Madama Butterfly.But in 1924, the year in which the composer died leaving his score unfinished, his writing had grown in modernity, without losing any of its melodic inspiration, as illustrated by the famous aria "Nessun dorma".The references to Asia could not fail to appeal to Robert Wilson, whose aesthetic draws on Japanese Noh theatre. His sparse staging, interspersed with touches of commedia dell'arte, offers striking and hypnotic images. The Paris Opera Orchestra and Chorus Maîtrise des Hauts-de-Seine/ The Paris Opera's Children's Choir Director: François Roussillon A production by: Opéra national de Paris Executive production: François Roussillon et Associés © Opéra national de Paris - 2023

Turandot: Princess of China Altoum: 

Emperor of China, her father Timur: 

Exiled king of Tartary Calaf: 

The “unknown prince”, his son Liù: 

Slave girl, Timur’s guide Ping:

Grand Chancellor of China Pang: 

Grand Master of provisions Pong: 

Grand Master of the Imperial kitchens

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Giacomo Puccini

Giacomo Puccini was born in 1858 in Lucca, Italy, to a family of organists (his father was a notorious theoretician and music teacher). A performance of Verdi's Aida, which he saw in Pisa in 1876, convinced him that his vocation was to become a composer. He studied at the Milan Conservatory with, among others, Amilcare Ponchielli. On Ponchielli's advice, he took part in a composition competition launched by the Sonzogno publishing house in 1883 for a one-act opera. Although he did not win the prize his piece, Le Villi, was staged in 1884 in Milan with some success. The music publisher Ricordi then commissioned him a second opera, Edgar. His third opera, Manon Lescaut, brought him lasting fame and marked the beginning of a fruitful collaboration with the librettists Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. Together, they wrote Puccini's three greatest masterpieces: La Bohème (1896), Tosca (1900) and Madama Butterfly (1904). In 1910, the premiere of La Fanciulla del West took place at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Puccini then composed a lighter piece, La Rondine, performed without much success at the Monte-Carlo Opera. After that, Puccini slowed down his compositional work. A car accident left him lame for the rest of his life and it was not until 1918 that The Triptych (Il Tabarro, Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi) premiered at the Metropolitan Opera. He died in Brussels in 1924 of throat cancer. His last opera, Turandot, remained unfinished. The last two scenes were completed by Franco Alfano. However, when Toscanini premiered Turandot at La Scala in Milan on 25 April 1926, he hold his baton to mark the point Puccini had reached before dying and turned to the audience: “Here the master laid down his pen. He stopped there when he died”. Puccini also wrote a number of religious works (Salve regina, Messa di Gloria).

Iréne Theorin graduated from the Music Academy and Royal Opera School of Copenhagen, and is performing on the greatest international opera stages.Last season, she was Brünnhilde (Die Walküre and Götterdämmerung) at the Bayreuth Festival, Brünnhilde (Die Walküre) in Stockholm, and she made a double appearance as Ortrud (Lohengrin) at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin and the Berlin Staatsoper unter den Linden.Other recent engagements include the complete Ring cycle at the Berlin Staatsoper unter den Linden, the title-role in Turandot at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Teatro Real in Madrid and New National Theatre Tokyo, the title-role in Elektra at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía in Valencia, Brünnhilde (Die Walküre) at the Royal Swedish Opera, Ortrud at the Flemish Opera, the title-role in La Gioconda at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona.In the 2022/23 season, she made her debut at the Baden-Baden Festival as the Dyer’s wife (Die Frau ohne Schatten) and returned at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin as Kostelnicka (Jenůfa). She joined Lise Davidsen and Waltraud Meier at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, for the Institution’s 175th anniversary concert, where she also sang the role of Judith in Bluebeard’s Castle.On the concert platform, Iréne Theorin has recently performed a recital at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona and the Los Angeles Victoria Foundation in Barcelona. Her DVD recordings include Elektra at the Salzburg Festival and Götterdämmerung at Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Tristan und Isolde filmed in Bayreuth and the Ring in Copenhagen.In March 2015, she was elected Best Singer of the Year in Spain for her performance of Brünnhilde in Die Walküre in Barcelona in 2014, and she was made Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog by Queen Margrethe II of Denmark.

At the Paris Opera: Elektra (title-role), 2014

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Brian Jagde was born in New York and is a graduate of the San Francisco’s Adler Fellowship and Merola programs. In 2012, he received Second prize together with the Birgit Nilsson Prize at Plácido Domingo’s Operalia Competition. He performed the roles of Don José (Carmen) in San Francisco, at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin and the Limoges Opera, Mario Cavaradossi (Tosca) in Santa Fe and Berlin, Rodolfo (La Bohème) in Mexico, and Count Elemer (Arabella) at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. In 2015, he made debut appearances at London’s Royal Opera House (Pinkerton in Madame Butterfly) and the Lyric Opera in Chicago (Mario Cavaradossi).In the following seasons, he tackled numerous roles including Maurizio (Adriana Lecouvreur) at London's Royal Opera House, Radames (Aida) in San Francisco and Seattle, Pinkerton at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, the Washington Opera and the Hamburg Staatsoper and at Chicago's Lyric Opera, Don José at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow, the Verona Arena and the Royal Opera House in London, the Prince in Rusalka at the Houston Grand Opera, Macduff (Macbeth) at the Teatro Real in Madrid, Bacchus (Ariane à Naxos) at the Palm Beach Opera, Calaf (Turandot) in San Francisco and at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Der Fremde in Korngold's Das Wunder der Heliane at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin, Turiddu (Cavalleria rusticana) at the Dutch National Opera and the Michigan Opera, Enzo Grimaldi (La Gioconda) at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Mario Cavaradossi at the Vienna State Opera and the Opera Philadelphia. He made his Paris Opera debut as Don Alvaro (La Forza del destino) in 2019. During the 2021/2022 season, he appeared as Des Grieux (Manon Lescaut) at the Vienna and Hamburg State Operas, Calaf at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, Maurizio at the Vienna State Opera, Don José at the Verona Arena, Mario Cavaradossi and Pinkerton at the Metropolitan Opera in New York and the Deutsche Oper in Berlin.

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Born in Albania, Ermonela Jaho studied singing at the Tirana Conservatoire and at the National Academy of St Cecilia, Rome. She lives in New York. Her repertoire ranges from the Baroque to the Verismo era and the Bel Canto. She performs on the leading international stages and is renown for her performances of Violetta Valery (La Traviata), Madama Butterfly, Suor Angelica (Il Trittico) and Adriana Lecouvreur.For the 2023/24 season, she appears in La Rondine at the Zurich Opera, The Human Voice at the Teatro Real Madrid, Suor Angelica at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, and in concerts for operatic galas in Athens, Barcelona, Valencia, Nice, Oviedo, London and the Wigmore Hall with Opera Rara.In 2023, she was nominated “Artist of the Year” at the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA), and her recording of Turandot, released by Warner Classics / Erato, has been selected for the Best Opera Recording by the Gramophone magazine. She also won the 2021 ICMA vocal music prize with her album “Anima Rara”. As an ambassador of Opera Rara, she is committed to rediscovering forgotten operas of the 19th and 20th centuries.At the Paris Opera: La Traviata (Violetta Valery), 2014, 2018; Madama Butterfly (Cio-Cio San), 2015; The Tales of Hoffmann (Antonia), 2016; Les Huguenots (Valentine), 2018 ; Faust (Marguerite), 2021

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Carlo Bosi is regularly invited on the Italian (La Scala Milan, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Festival Rossini Pesaro, Arena di Verona, Teatro Regio Turin…) and international operatic stages (Monte-Carlo, Geneva, Santander, Tel-Aviv Opera houses, Maestranzai in Seville, Dutch National Opera…).His repertoire includes roles such as Normanno (Lucia di Lammermoor), the Messenger (Aida), Flavio (Norma), Dr Cajus (Falstaff), Mastro Trabucco (La Forza del destino), Cassio (Otello), Monostatos (The Magic Flute), Pang (Turandot), Parpignol (La Bohème), Goro (Madama Butterfly), Spoletta (Tosca), Danieli (The Sicilian Vespers), Tinca and Gherardo (The Triptych), Edmondo (Manon Lescaut), Le Remendado (Carmen), the Royal Herald (Don Carlo), the four evil tenors in The Tales of Hoffmann, Poisson (Adriana Lecouvreur).&nbsp;He also sang l’Incroyable (Andrea Chénier) at Teatro Real in Madrid, the Paris Opera and the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Flavio (Norma) at La Monnaie in Brussels, Mastro Trabucco and Spoletta at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Rodolphe (William Tell) at the London Proms, Don Basilio (Le Nozze di Figaro) and the Herald at La Scala in Milan, Dr Cajus at the Royal Opera House, La Scala and the Dutch National Opera, Pang at the Teatro Comunale in Florence, Rustighello (Lucrèce Borgia) at La Monnaie, and Monsieur Triquet (Eugene Onegin) at the Teatro Regio in Turin.&nbsp;Recently, he has sung Abdallo (Nabucco), Gastone (La Traviata), Altoum (Turandot), Spoletta and the Messenger (Aida) in Verona, Dr Cajus at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Roderigo (Otello) and Goro in Aix-en-Provence. This season, he will portrayamong others Maitre Trabuco at La Scala in Milan.At the Paris Opera:&nbsp;Andrea Chénier (l’Incroyable), 2009 ; Madama Butterfly (Goro), 2011, 2014 ; Le nozze di Figaro (Don Basilio), 2012 ; Adriana Lecouvreur (Poisson), 2015 ; Tosca (Spoletta), 2014, 2016, 2021 ; Turandot (Altoum), 2021, 2023 ; La Forza del destino (Maître Trabuco), 2022

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Finnish bass, Mika Kares, studied at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki and was a member of the Karlsruhe Badisches Staatstheater from 2005 to 2010. He regularly performs in Paris, Berlin, Vienna, London, Madrid, Munich, Rome, Zurich, Amsterdam, Dresden and Chicago and has taken part in various festivals, including those of Bayreuth, Ruhrtriennale, Salzburg, Bregenz and Savonlinna.His operatic repertoire comprises the roles of Hagen (Götterdämmerung), Hunding (Die Walküre), Fafner (Siegfried), Fasolt (Das Rheingold), Hermann (Tannhäuser), King Marke (Tristan und Isolde), Heinrich der Vogler (Lohengrin), the Commander (Don Giovanni), Jacopo Fiesco (Simon Boccanegra), Zaccaria (Nabucco), King René (Iolanta), Ivan (The Khovantchina) and Bluebeard (Bluebeard’s Castle) - a part he also recorded for BIS in 2021 and for which he was nominated at the Grammy Awards.His recordings include Boris Godunov with the Goteborg Symphony Orchestra and Kent Nagano (BIS, 2019). Mika Kares also appears on the concert platform, in a repertoire including, among other things, Mozart’s Requiem, Rossini’s Stabat Mater, Beethoven’s Symphony n°9 and Missa Solemnis, Verdi’s Requiem, Mahler’s Symphony n°8 and Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis, as well as Chostakovitch’s Symphonies n°13 and 14.During the 2023/24 season he appears as Daland (Der Flying Dutchman) at the Lyric Opera Chicago, Jacopo Fiesco at the Bastille Opera, and in two new productions of the at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden de Berlin: Rusalka (Vodník) and The Khovantchina (Ivan). He also returns to the Bayreuth Festival to perform the role of Hagen, and to the Savonlinna Festival, where he sings the roles of Zaccaria and the Commander.At the Paris Opera: Il Trovatore (Ferrando), 2018; Simon Boccanegra (Jacopo Fiesco), 2018;&nbsp;Turandot (Timur), 2023

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Member of the Paris Opera Lyric TroupeIn 2002, Florent Mbia joined Françoise Petro's singing class at the École nationale de musique de Montreuil. In 2008, he was awarded a first prize in singing with congratulations from the jury, and a diploma in chamber music studies in 2009. He has taken part in numerous masterclasses with artists such as Jose Cura and Thomas Moser. In 2008, he was a finalist in the Strasbourg International Singing Competition, and won the E. J. Marshall prize (best baritone) at the Paris International Competition (UFAM), degree "Honneur".In 2009, he won first prize at the Forum lyrique européen d'Arles, first prize at the Concours international de chant de Clermont-Ferrand and joined the Paris Opera Chorus. He became resident artist at the Centre lyrique Clermont-Auvergne during the 2010-2011 season. He sings Norton (La cambiale di matrimonio) and the bass part in Rossini's Petite Messe solennelle.He has appeared as the Second Companion (Wozzeck), Montano (Otello), Orpheus (Orpheus and Eurydice), Papageno (The Magic Flute),&nbsp;the Notary (Don Pasquale), Don Giovanni and Don Alfonso in&nbsp;Mozart se déguise directed by Stephen Taylor. In 2021, he performs the role of Laurence (Le Magnifique) at the Opéra de Reims.He has performed as soloist in concerts, oratorios and masses such as Duruflé's Requiem, Fauré's Requiem, Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, Handel's Messiah and Carmina Burana.He is a member of the Paris Opera Lyric Troupe since the 2023-2024 season. At the Paris Opera: La Bohème (the Customs Sergeant), 2017; Mzensk's Lady Macbeth (a stage manager), 2019; Otello (Araldo), 2019; Tosca (a jailer), 2021; Rigoletto (the Count of Ceprano), 2021; La Force du destin (a mayor), 2022; Turandot (Ping), 2023; La Traviata (Il Marchese d'Obigny), 2024; La Vestale (Chief of the Aruspices, A consul), 2024 ; La Fille du régiment (Hortensius), 2024

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Polish tenor Maciej Kwaśnikowski began his vocal studies with Robert Nakoneczny in 2014. In 2015, he entered the Academy of the National Opera in Warsaw, where he worked with Izabela Kłosińska, Eytan Pessen and Matthias Rexroth. In 2017, he graduated in physics engineering from Poznań University of Technology, sang the role of Florville in Il Signor Bruschino with the Orchestre national d'Île-de-France, entered the Académie de l'Opéra national de Paris, was part of the Salzburg Festival's Young Singers Project and the Académie du Festival d'Aix-en-Provence. At the Académie de l'Opéra national de Paris, he plays Alfred in La Chauve-souris and Jeune Homme in La Ronde. He received the Cercle Carpeaux Lyric Prize 2018 and the AROP Lyric Prize 2019. He has performed the solo part in oratorios by Bach, Handel, Mozart, and notably Schubert's Mass in E-flat major with the Wiener Philharmoniker at the Salzburg Festival (2018) and with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks in Munich (2019). In 2019, he joins the Lindemann Program at New York's Metropolitan Opera, where his debuts and engagements are cancelled following Covid-19 until the end of the 2021 season. In 2022, he makes his debut as Ferrando (Così fan tutte) at the Opéra de Dijon and returns to the Salzburg Festival to perform Schubert's Mass in E-flat major with Camerata Salzburg under Franz Welser-Most. Next season, he will be Tamino (The Magic Flute) in Warsaw and Tours, as well as Tybalt (Romeo and Juliet) in Dresden. Maciej Kwaśnikowski has been studying with tenor Neil Shicoff since 2016. He is a member of the Troupe lyrique de l'Opéra national de Paris for the 2023-2024 season.At the Opéra national de Paris: Rigoletto (Matteo Borsa), 2021; Parsifal (a squire), 2022; Salomé (the Third Jew), 2022; Tristan and Isolde (a shepherd, a sailor), 2023; Hamlet (Second Gravedigger), 2023; Romeo and Juliet (Tybalt), 2023; Turandot (Pang), 2023; La Traviata (Gastone), 2024; Don Quixote (Rodriguez), 2024

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Member of the Troupe lyrique de l'Opéra national de ParisA graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts and Herald-Sun Aria finalist, Nicholas Jones has performed a variety of roles for Opera Australia, including the Remendado in Carmen, Marasquin in Two Weddings, One Bride and Schmidt in Werther. He has also sung Tamino and Count Almaviva in touring productions of The Magic Flute and The Barber of Seville. In 2016, he created the role of Fish Lamb in Cloudstreet presented by State Opera South Australia. He has sung the Male Chorus in Victorian Opera's The Rape of Lucretia, Britten's Canticles and Stefan Cassomenos' Art of Thought for the Melbourne Recital Centre and Haydn's Creation for the Sydney Philharmonic.He was also part of the original cast of Deborah Cheetham's opera Pecan Summer. More recently, he sang Michael Driscoll in Whiteley, as well as Tony in West Side Story for Opera Australia and Tom in Christina's World for State Opera South Australia. In 2022, he sang Tsarevich Gvidon (The Golden Cockerel) and Harry (Voss) in Adelaide, Handel's Messiah in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide, Jaquino (Fidelio) with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, and returned to Opera Australia as Count Almaviva.He recently won the Green Room Award for his portrayal of David in The Mastersingers of Nuremberg at Opera Australia, and was nominated for the Helpmann Award for the same role. In 2023, he appeared in Mozart's Mass in C minor with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and as Ralph Rackstraw in HMS Pinafore for State Opera South Australia's inaugural Gilbert &amp; Sullivan Festival. In 2024, he is Laertes in Brett Dean's Hamlet at Opera Australia. Nicholas Jones is the recipient of the Dame Heather Begg Memorial Award. He joins the Troupe lyrique de l'Opéra national de Paris from the 2023-2024 season.At the Opéra national de Paris: L'Affaire Makropoulos (Vitek), 2023; Turandot (Pong), 2023; Adriana Lecouvreur (Poisson), 2024; The Exterminating Angel (Enrique - Waiter), 2024 Don Quichotte (Juan), 2024; Falstaff (Bardolfo), 2024

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Guilhem Worms started his musical training with violin then studied singing at the Dijon Music School, before graduating from the Paris Conservatoire. In 2015, he won the Reims Operatic Talents, Sacred Voices competition.He quickly made his professional debut as Basilio (The Barber of Seville) at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. He sang Gottfried (The Rhine Nixies) at the Opéra de Tours, Lord Rochefort (Anna Bolena) at the Opéra national de Bordeaux, a lackey(Ariadne auf Naxos) at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, the First Priest and Second armoured man (The Magic Flute) at the Opéra de Marseille, Leporello (Don Giovanni) at the Opéra de Saint-Étienne, The Barber of Seville revival at the Opéra de Tours.In recent seasons, he sang Der Sprecher (The Magic Flute) at the Beaune International Baroque Opera Festival, Zuniga (Carmen) at the Opéra national du Rhin, Melisso (Alcina) at the Lausanne Opera, Thrond (Hulda) at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and the Opéra Royal de Wallonie, Palemon (Thaïs) at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées…Recent highlights include the roles of Marquis d’Obigny (La Traviata) at the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse, Sarastro (The Magic Flute) at the Opéra Royal in Versailles, Colline (La Bohème) at the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse and Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, and Mathisen (Le Prophète) at the Aix-en-Provence Festival. This season sees him in the roles of Sarastro and Der Sprecher at the Lausanne Opera, and Colline at the Opéra de Saint-Étienne.He was nominated in the 2019 Victoires de la Musique in the ‘Revelations’ category. He also organised regular working sessions in singing and human beat box with people suffering from mental illness in France and India. He holds a degree in ethnomusicology from the University of Paris 8 and published a book, Musique sans frontière.At the Paris Opera: Yvonne, princesse de Bourgogne (Innocent), 2020; Tosca (Cesare Angelotti), 2021; Faust (Wagner), 2022; Carmen (Zuniga), 2022; Don Giovanni (Masetto), 2023

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Hyun-Jong Roh studied music at Hansei University, South Korea, before studying singing at the Parma Conservatory with Giuliano Ciannella and Lelio Capilupi. In France, he studied at the Boulogne-Billancourt Conservatoire with Liliane Mazeron, where he unanimously obtained the First Prize in Singing. Since 2002 he has won many international singing competitions: Minerbio, Umberto Sacchetti, Mantua, Rhodesne, Riccardo Zandonai, Marmande... Hyun-Jong Roh has also performed numerous recitals in Korea, France and Italy.



On the concert platform, he has been a solo tenor in Franz Liszt’s Gaudeamus Igitur (cathedral of Parma) and has been invited to perform as a solo tenor in the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris for Mystère de la conversion de Paul Claudel by composer François Narboni. On the operatic stage, Hyun-Jong Roh has portrayed Giuseppe in La Traviata at Seoul Opera, the Duke of Mantua in Rigoletto and Rodolphe in La Bohème in Parma, Don Ramiro in La Cenerentola at the Île‑de‑France Festival. 



At the Paris Opera: Lohengrin (Ein brabantische Edle), 2017 ; Don Carlo (Un araldo), Les Contes d’Hoffmann (Nathanaël), 2020

Membre of the Paris Opera ChorusBorn in Poland, Isabelle Wnorowska-Pluchard studied at the Frederic Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw from 1994 to 2000. During her final year of singing studies, she was invited to perform in Poland and Germany. She sang the role of Dorabella (Così fan tutte) at the Grand Theatre in Warsaw, and the Second Lady (The Magic Flute) on tour in Germany with the Trawinska-Moroz Company. She took part in many masterclasses with Christian Elssner, Krystyna Szostek-Radkowa and Sylvia Geszty, and performed recitals on the Polish operatic stages of Warsaw, Cracow and Gdansk.In 2001, she joined the Paris Opera Chorus and worked with Jorge Chaminé, Christiane Patard and Raphaël Sikorski. A laureate of CIMA (Concerti in Monte Argentario), she has taken part in several concerts at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, CIMA (Tuscany) and in a recording of Tchaikovsky melodies and Bizet arias. A finalist in the Young Artist Competition in Europe, she has given numerous song recitals in France, Italy, Poland and Germany. In 2011, she took part in a masterclass with Teresa Berganza in Bougival.She also performed in concert with the Vittoria Choir conducted by Michel Piquemal and sang Poulenc’s Gloria, Martial Caillebotte’s Dies Irae and Martin Palmeri’s Misa Tango.Her repertoire includes Purcell, Handel and Stravinski, but also Mozart (Dorabella in Così fan tutte, Sesto in La clemenza di Tito) Rossini, Malher, Massenet (Charlotte in Werther), Moniuszko and Tchaikovsky (Tatiana in Eugen Onegin).At the Paris Opera: Moses und Aron (Stimme aus dem Dornbusch), 2015; Rigoletto (Contessa), 2021; Roméo et Juliette (Pepita), 2023

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Marco Armiliato is a regular guest at the Metropolitan Opera New York (where he has already conducted more than 500 performances) and the Vienna Staatsoper, which recently appointed him Ehrenmitglied (honorary member). He has recorded with many music labels and won a Grammy Award for the album “Verismo” with Renée Fleming, Jonas Kaufmann and the Orchestra Sinfonica e Coro Sinfonico di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, as well as a Diapason d'Or for his album “Romantic Arias” with Jonas Kaufmann.He made his Vienna Staatsoper debut in Andrea Chénier in 1995, and then his Metropolitan New York in La Bohème in 1998, which was the start of her career. He has since been performing regularly on the leading international opera stages, including the Teatro alla Scala Milan, the Verona Arena, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Paris Opera, Opernhaus Zürich, Salzburg Festival, the Chicago Opera, Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, Bayerische Staatsoper Munich and Semperoper Dresden.Since the beginning of her career, Marco Armiliato has been working with artists such as Mirella Freni, Renata Scotto, Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo, and more recently Anna Netrebko, Jonas Kaufmann and Angela Gheorghiu. In 2022 he was nominated music director of the 99th Opera Festival for the Verona Arena, where he conducted Carmen, Aida, La Traviata and Turandot. He returned there in 2023 to conduct Aida, Rigoletto and La Traviata.His recent engagements include Fedora and Andrea Chénier at the Teatro alla Scala Milan, La Traviata and Fedora at the Metropolitan Opera New York, Andrea Chénier in Monte-Carlo, Macbeth in Naples and Tosca in Vienna.At the Paris Opera: Otello, 2011; The Barber of Seville, 2012; La Fille du régiment, 2012

A graduate of the Taiwan Teacher Training College (Music Department), Ching-Lien Wu continued her studies at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Lyon, where she was awarded the First Prize in Choral Conducting in 1987. She attended courses and workshops in orchestral conducting with JeanSébastien Béreau, Helmut Rilling, Michael Gielen and Pierre Boulez. 
In 1989, she was appointed Chorus Master at the Nantes Opera and in 1990, Assistant Chorus Master at the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse. From 1991 to 2001, Ching-Lien Wu served as Chorus Master at the Opéra National du Rhin in Strasbourg. The work she accomplished there was acclaimed by French and international critics. During this period, she was guest Chorus Master at the operas of Montpellier, Rouen and Shanghai as well as at Radio France for various operatic works and oratorios. In 1996, she was assistant to Norbert Balatsch at the Bayreuth Festival.
From 2001 to 2014, Ching-Lien Wu was Chorus Master of the Grand Théâtre de Genève. In September 2014, she was appointed Chorus Master of the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam. In 2016, the German magazine Opernwelt awarded the Dutch National Opera Chorus under the direction of Ching-Lien Wu the best Chorus of the Year label. She has also conducted numerous concerts with her own choir «Le Motet de Genève» with the Suisse Romande Orchestra, the Geneva Chamber Orchestra and the Orchestratus Genevensis. She was at the helm
of this vocal ensemble from 2002 to 2012.
Since 1996, she has been invited to give master classes in choral conducting at the CNSM in Lyon. In her native country, she has been responsible for musical studies for several opera productions, including The Barber of Seville, an opera she also staged in Taipei. Ching-Lien Wu was appointed Chorus Master of the Paris Opera in February 2021 and took up her post on 26 April of the same year.

Robert Wilson, born in Waco, Texas was recognized in the 1960s as one of the leading figures of Manhattan’s avant-garde. In collaboration with the collective he founded, the Byrd Hoffman School of Byrds, he developed ground-breaking works such as Deafman Glance (1970), The Life and Times of Joseph Stalin (1973), and A Letter for Queen Victoria (1974-1975). In 1976, his Einstein on the Beach, set to a score by Philip Glass, would turn conventional perceptions of opera upside down.Robert Wilson produces both original and traditional repertoire works all over the world. His stage productions incorporate a wide variety of artistic media (including dance, movement, lights, sculpture, music, and texts). He has collaborated with numerous high-profile writers and musicians including Heiner Müller, Tom Waits, Susan Sontag, Laurie Anderson, William Burroughs, Lou Reed and Jessye Norman.He has also left his mark on repertoire classics such as Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape (Spoleto, 2009; Holland Festival, 2015), Madame Butterfly (Paris Opera, 1993), Pelléas et Mélisande (Salzburg Festival, 1997), Brecht and Weill’s Threepenny Opera (Berliner Ensemble, 2007; Théâtre de la Ville, 2009), Jean de la Fontaine’s Fables (Comédie-Française 2004), Homer’s Odyssey (Athens, 2009), Goethe’s Faust (Berliner Ensemble, 2015), La Traviata (Landestheater Linz, 2015), and L’Incoronazione di Poppea (Milan’s La Scala, 2015). More recently, he directed Il Trovatore at the Teatro Regio in Parma, Turandot at the Teatro Real in Madrid, and Otello at the Baden-Baden Festival.The work of Robert Wilson is also firmly anchored in the fine arts. His sketches, paintings and sculptures have been exhibited all over the world. He is the founder and the artistic director of the Watermill Center, a multidisciplinary experimental art laboratory dedicated to collective creation which brings together New York’s leading professionals and young artists.His work has been honoured with an array of prestigious awards including a Pulitzer Prize, a Premio Ubu, an Olivier Award, and a Golden Lion from the Venice Biennale. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as the German Academy of the Arts.France bestowed him with the title of Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters (2003) and Officer of the Legion of Honour (2014). He was also awarded the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit by the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany. He is also the winner of the Praemium Imperiale 2023.At the Paris Opera: Medea, 1984 ; Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien, 1988 ; The Magic Flute, 1991 ; Madama Butterfly, 1993 ; Pelléas et Mélisande, 1997 ; La Femme sans ombre, 2002 ; The Temptation of Saint Anthony, 2005 ; L’Incoronazione di Poppea, 2014 ; Turandot, 2021

Nicola Panzer studied opera stage direction at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg with Götz Friedrich. While completing her studies, she became stage director assistant at the Hamburg Staatsoper where she is still regularly working as guest director.She has collaborated with many leading international institutions, including the Los Angeles Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Opera Ballet Vlaanderen, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Théâtre du Châtelet, Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse, and opera houses of Montpellier, Barcelona, Madrid, Moscow, Tokyo, Tel Aviv and São Paulo. She also works with the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, and the Salzburg and Bayreuth Festivals.Since 1998, she has been working as a freelance opera director. She has staged Stockhausen’s Aus den sieben Tagen, a series of five performances for a young audience at the Hamburg Staatsoper, Hänsel und Gretel at the Dortmund Konzerthaus, Riders to the Sea and Il Seraglio in Frankfurt, The Bartered Bride at the Landestheater, Nabucco at the Immling Opera Festival, Les Mamelles de Tirésias in Leipzig, Le Nozze di Figaro, The Barber of Seville and The Magic Flute for the Daejeon Festival (South Korea).Her collaboration with Robert Wilson started with Cosmopolitan Greetings (1988), a multimedia jazz opera to a score by George Gruntz and Rolf Liebermann and lyrics by Allen Ginsberg, followed by Parsifal in 1991 in Hamburg and, more recently, LUTHER-dancing with the gods in Berlin, Il Trovatore in Parma, Handel’s Messiah in Salzburg, at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and Grand Théâtre de Genève, as well as Otello in Athens.At the Paris Opera: Turandot, 2021

Stéphanie Engeln lives in New York. She studied interior and general design in Germany.Since 1985, she has been working on many scenic designs for the opera and theatre. She started to collaborate with Robert Wilson in 1989, with Shakespeare’s King Lear at the Frankfurt Schauspielhaus and has since created the designs for his productions of Madama Butterfly, Parsifal, La Traviata, Il Trovatore and, more recently, Handel’s Messiah in Mozart's version.Over more than 35 years, her career has been marked by many projects. In parallel to opera and theatre, her work includes exhibitions and installations in museums, architectural projects, interior, graphic and furniture designing. 

At the Paris Opera: The Magic Flute, 1991; Pelléas et Mélisande, 1997; The Temptation of Saint Anthony, 2005; Turandot, 2021

John Torres is one of the first lighting designers to be working both for the dance, theatre, the music and the fashion worlds. Her collaboration with Robert Wilson includes Edda at the Oslo Norwegian Theater, Cheek to cheek with Tonny Benett and Lady Gaga.In the world of opera, he worked on various productions like Handel’s Messiah in Salzburg, Intelligence at the Houston Grand Opera, Tristan et Isolde at the Santa Fe Opera, or the recital Eden, by American mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato.For the theatre, he designed the lighting of Twelfth Night and A Bright Room Called Day for the Public Theater in New York, The Black Clown at the American Repertory Theater, Only an Octave Apart and Hamlet at St Ann’s Warehouse and Help: A New Play by Claudia Rankine at Shed.His music portfolio includes collaborations with Solange Knowles and Florence and the Machine and his dance work includes collaborations with Lucinda Childs for Available Light at the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris and with Bobbi Jene Smith for Lost Mountain and Broken Theatre at the MaMa.For the fashion industry, he works with Vogue World in New York, Bottega Veneta in Detroit and la Gucci Love Parade in Los Angeles. He also took part in the exhibitions Adam Pendleton: Who is Queen? at the New York MoMA and Carl Craig: Party/After Party at the Dia Foundation in Beacon.At the Paris Opera: Turandot, 2021

Jacques Reynaud studied fashion design in New York, where he lives and works. He has been noticed for his artistic projects for the theatre.He made his professional debut with director Luca Ronconi, for whom he created the costumes for Peer Gynt. Since the middle of the 1990s, he has been working with Robert Wilson. Their collaboration gave birth to the costumes for Ozeanflug, a play performed in 1998 at the Berliner Ensemble, The Days Before and POEtry in Hamburg, or Doctor Caligari in Berlin.In 2003, he designed the costumes for Leonce and Lena, staged by Robert Wilson to an original score by Herbert Grönemeyer. They pursued their collaboration in 2005 with William Shakespeare’s A Winter’s Tale, staged at the Berliner Ensemble. In 2017, he worked with Martin Zehetgruber for Michael Walter’s The Birthday Party at the Salzburg Festival. In 2019, he designed the costumes for The Jungle Book at the Düsseldorf Schauspielhaus.He recently created the costumes for Robert Wilson’s productions of Otello in Baden-Baden and Handel’s Messiah in Salzburg. 

At the Paris Opera L'incoronazione di Poppea, 2014; Turandot, 2021&nbsp;

Born in Rostock, Germany, Manu Halligan studied artistic makeup.Familiar with the work of Robert Wilson, she began to collaborate with him on productions like Shakespear’s Sonnets and Peter Pan in Berlin. She was the makeup artist for his revival of Einstein on the Beach in Kwangju in 2015. She also worked on Robert Wilson’s productions of Pushkin’s Fairy Tales at the Theatre of Nations in Moscow (2015), Edda at the Oslo Norwegian Theater (2017), The Sandman at the Düsseldorf Schauspielhaus (2017), The Jungle Book at the Grand Théâtre de la Ville in Luxembourg and Düsseldorf Schauspielhaus (2019).More recently, she worked on Handel’s Messiah, performed in 2020 in Salzburg. Manu Halligan is also a makeup artist in shows performed by Robert Wilson himself. Her portfolio also includes American movies like The Hunger Games, Point Break and A Cure for Wellness, and she also works on series like The Queen’s Gambit and The Empress, or for ceremonies with photographers like Jim Rakete. Last year, she worked on the movie The Promised Land.At the Paris Opera: Turandot, 2021

Tomek Jeziorski was born in 1986 in Warsaw. He studied at the Polish Cultural Institute in Warsaw and completed his training with a filmmaker and screenwriter diploma at the Łodź National Film School. As a filmmaker, his movies have been screened in many international film festivals, including those of Locarno, Vancouver, Madrid, St-Petersburg, Tampere, Vienna or Sibiu.In 2009, he began to collaborate with stage director Robert Wilson, for whom he made the videos of his shows. He also works with various artists including Laurent Chetouane, Tilman Hecker, Karoline Gruber and the singer Herbert Gronemeyer, for whom he made the videos for the tour of his album Dauernd Jetzt.In 2015, Tomek Jeziorski was a finalist in the Papayoung directors competition and an artist resident at the Watermill Center in New York. In 2021, he won an artistic grant from the Łodź district in the cinema category. He is the recipient of the Main Prize of the Polish Filmmakers Association, as part of the competition SCRIPT PRO in 2023.At the Paris Opera: Turandot, 2021

José Enrique Macián is a Spanish-American author, translator, publisher and dramaturge. He graduated from Brown University (USA), where he studied comparative literature, theatre and art history. In 2008, he received a grant from the prestigious Fulbright programme. He was a close collaborator of Dimiter Gotscheff in Berlin, from 2008 to 2013, year of director’s death.From 2009 to 2019, he worked with Robert Wilson throughout Europe, on theatre and opera projects. He also published The Watermill Center: A Laboratory for Performance (2011), a book dedicated to the artistic centre founded by Robert Wilson.With composer Jóhann Jóhannsson, he co-wrote the script of Last and First Men (2020), a critically acclaimed feature film starring Tilda Swinton. The movie was later released on Blu-ray by Deutsche Grammophon.He published and translated exhibitions catalogues for several leading cultural institutions in Europe, including the Museum Albertina in Vienna, the Haus der Kunst in Munich, K20/K21 in Düsseldorf, Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Royal Academy of Arts in London. He is a member of various foundations committed to supporting the arts.At the Paris Opera: Turandot, 2021

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