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A Life On-Line: Paul Mealor's Piano Concerto, Zandonai in New York, Turandot in Zagreb
[…] can suffer from over-lavish production standards is Puccini's Turandot (Franco Zeffirelli's production at the Met is a case in point), but the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb staged the work in 2018 with a remarkable economy and striking psychological insights (seen on OperaVision). The directors were the Italian duo Ricci/Forte and conductor was Marcello Mottadelli. The excellent cast was all new to me, with Rebeka Lokar (Slovenian) as Turandot, Renzo Zulian (Italian) as Calaf, Valentina Fijačko Kobić (Croatian) as Liu and Berislav Puškarić (Croatian) as Timur. The action all took place inside Turandot's head, she was the 'onlie begetter' of the action and all the cast were placed in glass museum-like cases when not in action. And all were articulated by Turandot's shadows, a team of 12 actors who ended up stripped to their underwear (for reasons that were unclear). Not all the dramaturgy was completely obvious, and I was […]
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