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, ...
Were operas to be identified like episodes of Friends, Turandot would be “the one with Nessun Dorma”. This beloved tenor aria ...
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.
A new staging of a culturally insensitive opera has community members and artists debating the value of racially stereotypical art and the conversation — or lack of one — that it can spark. Opera ...
Piedmont Opera is presenting a semi-staged concert performance of Puccini's Turandot through Tuesday at the Stevens Center. Some patrons may decide to pass on the show, concluding that only a ...
A lot can change in 10 years. A decade ago, tenor Michael Fabiano was a rising star in the opera world. Now the in-demand singer performs regularly on some of the world's top stages, including New ...
Maxim Derevianko’s “Ai Weiwei’s Turandot” has been picked up by Berlin-based doc specialist Rise and Shine World Sales, ahead of its international premiere on March 21 in the Highlights section of the ...