The four Turandot - T4T project

“THE FOUR TURANDOT – T4T”
INTAFAM_00048 - CUP F41I23000550001

Project subsidised under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) –Mission 4 – Component 1 'Enhancement of services for education: from early childhood programs to universities' – Investment 3.4 'Advanced university teaching and skills,' sub-investment T5 'Strategic partnerships/initiatives to innovate the international dimension of the AFAM system,' funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU.

The project

The Milan Conservatory, in network with the Conservatories of Florence, Modena and Carpi, Piacenza and Turin, the Polytechnic of the Arts of Bergamo, the NABA-New Academy of Fine Arts of Milan, the University of Milan, won a tender issued by the Ministry of University and Research, subsidised with European funds from the National Recovery and Resilience Plan, following the covid-19 pandemic, with the transnational mobility project “The Four Turandot-T4T”.
The project involves teachers and students and it is dedicated to Giacomo Puccini’s latest masterpiece, Turandot, with the aim of presenting to the public, by March 2026, all the four versions of the opera currently known to the world of scholarship, in four different multimedia performances with high technological content in four different countries of the world.
The Milan Conservatory will therefore involve 3 prestigious institutions in particular, to create a co-production of Turandot and stage three of the four performances at their venue (one of them will be staged in Milan). The main characters of the opera (Turandot, Calaf, Liù) will move transnationally and so will do collaborative pianists, directors, set designers: they all will be students selected through the auditions.

The T4T project also includes:

• an international study conference dedicated both to Puccini as a student at the Milan Conservatory and to the results and influences of Puccini's work on the world of music;
• an exhibition, also in two parts, dedicated to Puccini as a student at the Milan Conservatory, and to his last opera Turandot, in collaboration with the Archivio Storico Ricordi;
• the comparative critical edition of the two finales of Turandot written by Franco Alfano, in collaboration with Casa Ricordi
• the creation of three new contemporary epilogues of the opera.

In the first phase, the project will issue Auditions, aimed at students of higher musical education and universities, for the selection of singers, conductors, collaborative pianists, philologists and composers. Those students who will move transnationally to work at the production or edition of Turandot, can come from any country in the world.