15th May

Concert will begin at 17:00 hours GMT

Puccini's 'Turandot' with Dyka, Kim, Zanetti and Gábor from Budapest

Puccini's 'Turandot' is an opera in three acts, completed by Franco Alfano, set to a libretto in Italian by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni. The opera's story is set in China and involves Prince Calàf, who falls in love with the cold Princess Turandot. To obtain permission to marry her, a suitor has to solve three riddles; any wrong answer results in death. Calàf passes the test, but Turandot still refuses to marry him. He offers her a way out: if she is able to learn his name before dawn the next day, then at daybreak he will die. Performers:

Turandot: Oksana Dyka.
Calaf: Alfred Kim.
Liu: Selene Zanetti.
Timur: Géza Gábor.
Ping: Máté Fülep.
Pong: Donát Varga.
Pang: Zoltán Megyesi.
Emperor Altoum/ Prince of Persia: László Kálmán.
A Mandarin: István Gáspár.

Children’s Choir of the Zoltán Kodály Hungarian Choir School. Hungarian National Choir and Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Carlo Montanaro.

Live.