“This is a wonderful first-time opera — a great introduction for a child, or a date, or anybody who hasn’t gone to the opera before. It has such accessible music and an exciting story; you can watch ...
Big cast. Big sets. Big songs. Big emotions. If you're ever tasked with trying to come up with the most quintessentially operatic of all operas, Giacomo Puccini's "Turandot" would be pretty hard to ...
The Kennedy Center premieres a new ending for one of the world's most famous operas on Saturday in Washington, D.C. The opera is Turandot, and its ending has always been, shall we say, problematic.
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 ...
The Metropolitan Opera Company’s Live in HD broadcast of Giacomo Puccini’s “Turandot” will be shown at the Whitefish Performing Arts Center at 10:55 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 12. Set in ancient China and ...
Soprano Tamara Wilson strikes a pose in Turandot at Houston Grand Opera. Credit: Photo by Lynn Lane Composer Giacomo Puccini loved fast cars, fast women, and cigarettes. It was the cigarettes that ...
The Connecticut Grand Opera, under the baton of Maestro Laurence Gilgore, its general director and principal conductor, will present an semi-staged performance of Puccini's monumental masterpiece, ...
Christine Goerke as Princess Turandot and (Limmie Pulliam as Calàf in Turandot at Moores School of Music. Credit: Photo by Rafael Lopez Every time Giacomo Puccini’s final masterpiece Turandot (1926) ...
The Royal Opera has chosen Andrei Serban’s venerable staging of Turandot, Puccini’s unfinished final opera, to open the 2013-14 season and although this production is almost thirty years’ old, ...