This production takes Turandot to new heights, merging opulent costumes and lavish sets with cutting-edge stagecraft to ...

Although Puccini’s “Turandot” and “Madama Butterfly” are under fire lately for their stereotypical depictions of Asian characters, opera companies are reluctant to eliminate these hugely popular ...

Create an account or log in to save stories. Minneapolis event celebrates Indigenous musicians, fashion and expanding tribal radio station The best and most surprising Big Book shows of 2025, part two ...

In conducting his first full-length opera in concert with the Minnesota Orchestra, music director Thomas Søndergård has pulled off a stunner, with fireworks singing from not only a terrific host of ...

Stefano Vignati, Music Director and Principal Conductor of Opera Carolina, has been selected to conduct the opening of the ...

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) ...

A new opera series is forming in Detroit amid the rapidly growing divide between contemporary and traditional opera lovers, and is throwing down the gauntlet for old-school opera with a classic ...

Francesca Zambello, artistic director of the Washington National Opera, talks about an exciting new staging of Puccini’s unfinished final opera, Turandot. If you can't access your feeds, please ...

With the crash of a gong or six, director Andrei Zerban’s classic 1984 production of Puccini’s final work Turandot, which combines elements of opera, Chinese theatre and the Italian dramatic ...

Washington National Opera has ended its 2023–24 season with an odd revisiting of Giacomo Puccini’s last, unfinished, and, it seems, eternally problematic opera Turandot. Those who sought to buy ...

An April 24 performance of Puccini’s "Turandot" – one that featured vast choral and orchestral forces and first-rate soloists playing to an enthusiastic and sold-out house – demonstrated the vitality ...

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 ...