We take a look at the arias, movements, songs and dances whose fame has outshone the larger works in which they first ...
A reimagined version of Turandot is staged at the Shaanxi Opera House in Xi'an, capital of northwest China's Shaanxi Province, Nov. 9, 2025.(Shaanxi Opera House/Handout via Xinhua) A reimagined ...
THE CONCERT may be better remembered than the football World Cup final that followed it (West Germany beat Argentina 1-0). On July 7th 1990 three tail-coated tenors, backed by more than 200 musicians, ...
For more than nine decades, the Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcasts have brought opera into millions of homes, playing a vital and unparalleled role in the development and appreciation of opera in ...
Christine Goerke as Princess Turandot and (Limmie Pulliam as Calàf in Turandot at Moores School of Music. Credit: Photo by Rafael Lopez Every time Giacomo Puccini’s final masterpiece Turandot (1926) ...
At the risk of repeating myself, opera should be all about the music and the voice. If I’m ever asked to quantify that statement, I readily proffer “Turandot” in support of my assertions. For here is ...
On Wednesday, the festival hosts the world premiere of Animality, the great Chinese artist’s latest documentary. And later today it welcomes audiences for the international premiere of Ai Weiwei’s ...
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 ...
Opera Hong Kong’s new production of Turandot may have been billed as a memorial to composer Giacomo Puccini on the 100th anniversary of his death, but that was only part of the picture. The ...
Washington National Opera has ended its 2023–24 season with an odd revisiting of Giacomo Puccini’s last, unfinished, and, it seems, eternally problematic opera Turandot. Those who sought to buy ...
Francesca Zambello, artistic director of the Washington National Opera, talks about an exciting new staging of Puccini’s unfinished final opera, Turandot. If you can't access your feeds, please ...
Although Puccini’s “Turandot” and “Madama Butterfly” are under fire lately for their stereotypical depictions of Asian characters, opera companies are reluctant to eliminate these hugely popular ...