Nessun Dorma

An opera in three acts freely adapted from Turandot by Giacomo Puccini

Project and realization Kinkaleri/Massimo Conti, Marco Mazzoni, Gina Monaco | with Yanmei Yang, Marco Mazzoni | choir performers on video class 3B and class 3C, G. Puccini Primary School, Prato, Italy | production Kinkaleri – 2018 | in collaboration with FTS Fondazione Toscana Spettacolo | supported by Regione Toscana, MiBACT – Settore Spettacolo
Duration 50′ | Audience: 6 and older

Nessun Dorma is an opera for childhood, an adaptation in three acts of Turandot by Giacomo Puccini, the unfinished last masterpiece of the Italian melodramma. It is a tale of love and death told by Kinkaleri with silhouettes, cutouts and drawings, riddles and disguises: an enchanting artificial gathering of music, singing, recitation, theatre sceneries.
The performance is built on the presence of an actor/dancer drawing the characters of the tale and bringing them to life, and an opera singer interpreting the glacial princess Turandot. The two performers play deep in the ever-changing setting made exclusively of white paper: a downscaled opera that keeps shining with magnificence, wonder and splendour.
Nessun Dorma is an engaging and absorbing history made up of music, words, drawings and silences: an opera for an audience of children as well as for everyone – ageless – experiencing theatre with passionate disenchantment. Because after all “Turandot” is a game, albeit a cruel one.