This art form is always about compromise - it’s simply too big to contain without it, the adjective ‘grand’ very much earned ...

Big cast. Big sets. Big songs. Big emotions. If you're ever tasked with trying to come up with the most quintessentially operatic of all operas, Giacomo Puccini's "Turandot" would be pretty hard to ...

The Atlanta Opera creates a compellingly dramatic and opulent show with its latest production of Giacomo Puccini's "Turandot," currently at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre through May 7.

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I'm sorry, you'll have to speak up: my ears are still ringing from the battle of the belters at Covent Garden last week. The Royal Opera's new season opened with a spectacular revival of their hit ...

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 ...

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, ...