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, ...

Its great aria Nessun Dorma is one of opera’s most famous, but there’s much more to Puccini’s complex final work. Antonio Pappano explains why it has taken him three decades to conduct it As a ...

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 ...

Zachary Nelson, Stefano La Colla, Keith Jameson, and Rodell Rosel in the Lyric's current production of Puccini's Turandot Credit: Todd Rosenberg Giacomo Puccini’s Turandot, now being produced by Lyric ...

The past decade has witnessed a significant cultural and social shift toward greater awareness and critique of representation and cultural appropriation in artistic works. This shift is largely driven ...

The title character in Puccini’s final opera, Turandot, could be described as an enigma wrapped in a riddle – or three riddles, to be exact. The Chinese princess challenges any suitor who would dare ...

In celebration of its 40th Anniversary Season, Knoxville Opera presents Puccini’s "Turandot" at Knoxville Civic Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 23, and 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 25. Forty-five ...

With the ambitious hybrid nature of the new Gregory Spears choral opera Sleepers Awake, has Opera Philadelphia opened a promising new door amid the endless possibilities of music theater? Or is the ...