Composer Giacomo Puccini died in 1924, leaving Turandot unfinished. BACKGROUND: Turandot was first performed in 1926 at La Scala, in Milan. The story originated two centuries earlier, in a fiaba, or ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by In a revival of Franco Zeffirelli’s lavish production, the conductor Oksana Lyniv led a performance that transcended the gilded stage dressing. By ...

The phenomenon known as Andrea Bocelli is at it again, releasing his 11th complete opera recording. This time he takes on the tenor role of Calàf in Puccini's final, unfinished opera, "Turandot," best ...

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Puccini’s Turandot returned to Opera Hong Kong’s repertoire for the first time since 2005 as part of the company’s 15th anniversary season. Musically, there was much to enjoy, with some excellent ...

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Though burdened with tradition and constrained by the narrow-minded expectations of its more conservative patrons, the Metropolitan Opera pulled off a spectacular feat of serendipity last Thursday.

Opera Hong Kong’s new production of Turandot may have been billed as a memorial to composer Giacomo Puccini on the 100th anniversary of his death, but that was only part of the picture. The ...

Californian soprano Lise Lindstrom has spent most of her career playing a “cold-hearted so-and-so” – the titular princess in Puccini’s Turandot – and disagrees with the push to tone down operas to ...

Persuasive: Alfred Kim as Calaf in the Royal Opera's production of Turandot Credit: Photo: Tristram Kenton Although now 30 years old and weathered by umpteen revivals, the Royal Opera’s production of ...