Last week, Opera Philadelphia opened its new season by producing three operas simultaneously, including two premieres, and a tried-and-true classic: “Turandot” by Puccini. The offering by Puccini has ...

The Feb. 28 staging starring Limmie Pulliam, Latonia Moore and Detroiter Christine Goerke will launch Music Hall’s new ...

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 ...

Giacomo Puccini did not live to write the end of "Turandot," and his death in 1924 left us a gorgeous riddle. That the opera itself is about riddles only adds to the mystery of this last work by the ...

OK. What is the operatic role that kills men – and soprano voices? Turandot, of course, is the right answer to all of those questions. This frosty princess in legendary China, the title character of ...

This summer's heat didn't affect the staff building scenery for the Lyric Opera of Kansas City, probably the first time in three decades. In June, the Lyric moved tools, lumber, and other items from ...

Pacific Opera Project’s production of Puccini’s final opera, Turandot features the husband and wife team of tenor Clay Hilley and soprano Sara Duchovnay in the roles of Calàf and Liù respectively. I ...

Turandot was originally seen live in movie theaters on January 30 as part of the groundbreaking The Met: Live in HD series, which transmits live performances to more than 2,000 movie theaters and ...

Puccini’s original score was ‘finished’ by Franco Alfano, whose additions are heard uncut on this dramatic all-star recording Antonio Pappano has never yet conducted Turandot in the theatre – and that ...

For 84 years, opera buffs have puzzled over how the Italian composer Giacomo Puccini meant to end one of his best-loved operas, Turandot, which is set in a mythical China. Puccini died before he ...

Turandot is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini (December 22, 1858 – November 29, 1924). Puccini’s final opera is an epic fairy tale set in a China of legend, loosely based on the play “Turandot ...