Kirsten Blanck to Star in English National Opera’s Turandot

The English National Opera has announced principal cast and creative team for a new production of Puccini’s Turandot, to be directed by Tony Award nominee Rupert Goold, to run in repertory October 8-December 12 at the London Coliseum. It will be conducted by Edward Gardner, the ENO’s music director.

The production will feature Kirsten Blanck (Turandot), Gwyn Hughes Jones (Calaf), Amanda Echalaz (Liu), James Creswell (Timur), Ben Nelson (Ping), Christopher Turner (Pong), Sutart Kale (Emperor Altoum), and Iain Paterson (Mandarin). The creative team includes Miriam Buether (sets), Katrina Lindsay (costumes), Rick Fisher (lighting), and Aletta Collins (choreography).

The ENO’s new season will also include Fiona Shaw’s production of Henze’s 1961 opera Elegy for Young Lovers, which revolves around a poet who devours those around him to nourish his art and ego, a production of Handel’s oratorio Messiah directed by Deborah Warner, Penny Woolcock’s production of Bizet’s The Pearl Fishers, and Katie Mitchell’s production of Mozart’s Ideomeneo.

In addition, the company will present productions of Janacek’s Katya Kabanova, Donizetti’s Lucia de Lamermoor, Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre, Bartok’s Duke Bluebeard’s Castle, Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, Puccini’s Tosca, Verdi’s Rigoletto, David McVicar’s The Turn of the Screw, and new work from the company Punchdrunk, among other offerings.

For more information, visit www.eno.org.