Seventeen years after the latest presentation of the project in Greece, the National Opera Stage presents the masterpiece of Herodion at the Athens Epidaurus Festival.

The swan song of Jacomo Puccini and the most magnificent opera of all, almost a century after its creation, opens this year’s Herodion program, in a new magnificent production on 1, 3, 5, 6 and 8 June 2025, at Music Director of Pierre Giorgio International radiation.

Turantot’s case takes place in other times, in distant and exotic China, where Princess Turantot will only marry anyone who solves the three riddles he poses. Those who have tried have failed and paid it with their lives. Dazzled by her stunning beauty, an unknown prince insists on testing his luck and succeeds. But after solving the riddles, Turantot refuses to marry him. The prince offers her an opportunity to get rid of her commitment if she discovers her name before she carves.

The composition of the project was never completed, as Puccini died in 1924 in his 65s.

In the latest, farewell meeting with the maestro and then artistic director of the staircase of Milan Arturo Tuskanini, the composer predicted: “My opera will be unsecured, someone will go on stage and say to the public:” at this point “.

The work was finally completed, based on Puccini’s drafts by composer Franco Alfano (1926), under the supervision of Tuscany, who had announced the premiere of Skala as the “event of the century”.

The new ELS exhibition in Herodion

For the new production of Turandot, the National Opera Stage works with high prestige and international artists.

Her directing signs one of the leading directors of theater and opera, Andrei Serbanwho is recognized internationally for his innovative and iconoclastic directions. Serban is considered one of the most creative and bold directors of theater and opera worldwide.

The now historical Turantot he signed in 1984 for the London Royal Opera continues to rise to Covent Garden even today, completing more than four decades of life. He has successfully worked with the top lyric theaters on the planet, with his productions now being the foundation of their repertoire – such as his Lucia in Paris or Verther in Vienna.

The scenery and costumes Plans – in her first collaboration with ELS – the Great international Greek stage designer and costume deskwhich has signed flagship productions of opera, theater and cinema, through her collaborations with Peter Brook, Franco Jefirelli, Deborah Warner, Fiona Sak, Abbas Kiarostami, Lefteris Vogiatzi and others.

The drama is signed by Daniela Violeta Dima, choreography and kinesiology by Kate Flatt, with a choreographer-kineologist associate Georgia Tegos, and the lighting by Jean Kalman and Simon Trootte.

Directed by the internationally recognized Italian chieftain Pierre Georgio Morandi, who returns to the National Lyric Stage after the triumphant Traviata in the summer of 2024 in Herodion. Morandi has been distinguished in the Italian repertoire with hundreds of performances in the most important lyric theaters and opera festivals in the world, such as in the opera of Rome, the Milan Skala, the Paris National Opera House, the La Monna Theater of Brussels, at the Brussels, in the Brussels of the Brussels, in

The public will have the opportunity to enjoy internationally renowned performers of the opera in both distributions of the roles.

– in the role of Turantottwo great dramatic lists of our time who have been recognized as ideal performers of the role, The American Liz Lindstrom and the British Kathryn Foster.

– Roping interpret two great tenors, the Arsen Sogomonian and the Ricardo Massi.

– in the role of Liu The great soprano of ELS Chelie Costea and the excellent young soprano Maria Kosovitsa.

– in the role of Timur Makes his debut the ULS bonus Tasos Apostolouwho has sung outside Greece at the UN and Lincoln Center in New York, as well as in Italy, Germany, Qatar, Switzerland, Boston, Egypt, Cyprus and more.

With them:

– Ping: Haris Andrianos

– Pag: Giannis Kalyvas

– Pain: Andreas Karaoulis

– Mandarin: George Papadimitriou

– Young Prince of Persia: Nikos Stefanou

With the Orchestra, Choir and Children’s Choir of the National Opera.

When

1, 3, 5, 6, 8 June 2025

Herod Atticus Conservatory

Start time: 21.00

As part of the Athens Epidaurus Festival

Ticket prices

Lower Diazoma: Distinguished zone 1: 130 €, distinguished zone 2: 90 €, zone 1: 70 €,

Zone 2: 60 €, zone 3 (limited visibility): 35 €

Upper Diazoma: Zone A: 50 €, Zone B: 40 €, Zone C: 30 €, Zone D: 25 €, Zone E: 20

Student, Children’s: 15 €, Disabled: Free

Sale

www.more.com, ELS Funds at SNCP (2130885700, daily 9.00-21.00), Epidaurus Festival Festival (https://aefestival.gr/pliriories-eisitirion/)