It’s one of Opera Australia’s most beloved productions – an opera with a truly stirring story at its heart, a stunning aria on its lips and which presents an absolute spectacle for the eyes. But at ...

One hundred years since it premiered at La Scala opera house in Milan, there is still no consensus on how the opera “Turandot” should end. After struggling with the ending to “Turandot” for years, ...

The Italian composer Giacomo Puccini died of a heart attack on Nov. 29, 1924 without finishing his newest opera “Turandot.” The piece was later finished by Franco Alfano, but remains a curiosity in ...

Puccini’s Turandot, with its combination of myth, ritual and emotional extremity, suits dark evenings and the build-up to Christmas, when audiences seem especially ready for spectacle and intensity.

The Royal Opera has chosen Andrei Serban’s venerable staging of Turandot, Puccini’s unfinished final opera, to open the 2013-14 season and although this production is almost thirty years’ old, ...

3 Photos: New Look At JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR West End Starring Sam Ryder and More 4 Review: JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, Starring Sam Ryder The Royal Opera House’s Turandot has now been running so long it ...

The Canadian Opera Company has kicked off its season of fairy tale-inspired operas, leading with Puccini’s final opera, Turandot. The story is so simple it draws you right in: the Princess Turandot, ...

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, ...

Graeme Murphy’s swirlingly beautiful 1990 production of Puccini’s last opera, Turandot, puts into the work the mythic, remote and dreamlike element that partly eluded Puccini, and which, some have ...

A major studio opera recording is rare nowadays, but add in Kaufmann, Radvanovsky and some unusual material and it has all the makings of something unique indeed. Neil Fisher visits Rome to sit in on ...

Nearly every week, I see newspapers and magazines that seemed fine suddenly going out of business. Or a private equity fund buying up a chain of newspapers that had been serving communities for ...