The Atlanta Opera creates a compellingly dramatic and opulent show with its latest production of Giacomo Puccini's "Turandot," currently at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre through May 7.
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 ...
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 final and unfinished masterpiece Turandot opened to a packed auditorium at the Grand Opera House last night, a tripartite co-production between Northern Ireland Opera, the Staatstheater ...
After their usual August of ballet, the Royal Opera House kicked off its autumn programme with a reliable old favourite, Andrei Serban's production of Puccini's Turandot which is now back for its 15th ...
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. What are the three riddles of Turandot, and can anybody answer them? Imagine ...
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 ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Christine Goerke and Yusif Eyvazov star in a revival of Franco Zeffirelli’s production, which adds gaudiness to Puccini’s sophisticated score. By ...
There will be leaner, more modern Turandots to please contemporary palates, but nothing will match the sheer spectacle of Andrei Serban’s 1984 production, revived ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Nobody can accuse Antonio Pappano and Warner Classics of rushing their cycle of Puccini’s operas. It is nearly ...