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 ...
Zachary Nelson, Stefano La Colla, Keith Jameson, and Rodell Rosel in the Lyric's current production of Puccini's Turandot Credit: Todd Rosenberg Giacomo Puccini’s Turandot, now being produced by Lyric ...
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 ...
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, ...
Ai Weiwei mounted a production of Puccini’s Turandot at the Rome Opera House amid the Covid pandemic recovery and the war in Ukraine. It also was Weiwei’s first opera. Maxim Derevianko, director of ...
Korean tenor Baek Seok-jong says his career has been defined more by failure than success, reflecting on a musical journey ...
The title character in Puccini’s final opera, Turandot, could be described as an enigma wrapped in a riddle – or three riddles, to be exact. The Chinese princess challenges any suitor who would dare ...