“She’s a young woman who’s terrified of being nothing more than being somebody’s property. Whether that reads on stage is debatable,” she acknowledges, laughing. All of her actions are a means to protect herself psychologically.
“So I look at her that she’s trying to protect herself from the horrors and dangers of love and everything that goes with that or the loss of love. She’s balking at the idea she has to be with a man to have value and to have importance through being married and her dad kind of giving her away as chattel. Which was not the way people thought back then. I liken her to being one of the first kind of feminists. “From an audience perspective, she’s very cruel and unlikeable. Soprano Wilson knows that it’s hard to warm up to her character. Prince Calaf (} Kristian Benediktpasses her test but she still wants nothing to do with him until he kisses her and then, shazaam, she is transported. Suitors are required to answer three questions and if they get any of them wrong, they are put to death. Turandot is the story of a young woman who doesn’t want to get married. I have for years, 50 years, developed techniques that help me see an actor better.” You have to make everything a little bit larger so that it reads better. “It’s a very big theater in Houston Grand Opera and you have people very far away. So I exaggerate the makeup on the eyes and the mouth so that I can see the movement of the eyes. Then white faces - in order to see a singer or to hear a singer if I see their mouth moving if I see their face, it’s the psychological thing, I think I hear better. “The first thing I do in the theater is to light. “Light is the most essential element in theater, the element that helps us to hear and see better,” Robert Wilson says.
A large part of her reason for doing this HGO production is director Wilson ‘s use of movement and light - something he has been known for in all his productions. Singer Wilson (no relation to the director) says that while she loves singing this role known for its many notes in the high register, she is very selective in the Turandots she is offered. Soprano Tamara Wilson will perform the title role of Puccini’s Turandot for the Houston Grand Opera arrayed in distinctive white face and wearing a bold red dress - both the vision of director/set and lighting designer Robert Wilson.
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