The Royal Opera House’s Turandot has now been running so long it feels less like a revival and more like a listed structure. You don’t attend it so much as pass through it, like a familiar corridor or ...
But we don’t readily think of Puccini in terms of grand opera, ALL CAPS, unless we narrow our focus to the Italian master’s last work, TURANDOT, the one opera he didn’t live to complete or see ...
Puccini’s Turandot, with its combination of myth, ritual and emotional extremity, suits dark evenings and the build-up to Christmas, when audiences seem especially ready for spectacle and intensity.
Francesca Zambello, artistic director of the Washington National Opera, talks about an exciting new staging of Puccini’s unfinished final opera, Turandot. If you ...
CHONGQING, Jan. 12 (Xinhua) -- On Saturday evening, the main auditorium of the Chongqing Grand Theatre in southwest China was at maximum capacity. As a familiar melody rose, a tenor delivered one of ...
Were operas to be identified like episodes of Friends, Turandot would be “the one with Nessun Dorma”. This beloved tenor aria has achieved a life of its own away from its parent opera. Consequently, ...
A lot can change in 10 years. A decade ago, tenor Michael Fabiano was a rising star in the opera world. Now the in-demand singer performs regularly on some of the world's top stages, including New ...
Considered Giacomo Puccini’s finest musical masterpiece, Turandot transports audiences to a fantasy land based on a Western conception of China. What does it mean to produce an opera like Turandot ...
The Minnesota Orchestra will perform the opera “Turandot” this week. It’s the first opera performed under the leadership of music director Thomas Søndergård.