“This is a wonderful first-time opera — a great introduction for a child, or a date, or anybody who hasn’t gone to the opera before. It has such accessible music and an exciting story; you can watch ...
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 ...
Stefano Vignati, Music Director and Principal Conductor of Opera Carolina, has been selected to conduct the opening of the ...
It’s not every opera that plays a key role in a “Mission: Impossible” action flick. But that’s what “Turandot” does in the Tom Cruise-starring blockbuster, “Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation.” ...
“I want scared children,” Mark Meier, the stage director says. “Scared children.” I’ve arrived at the beginning of Union Avenue Opera’s run-through for Turandot, during the frantic mob scene in which ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The third and final act of Puccini’s “Turandot” is, famously, when everything falls apart. This is when the insoluble contradictions of the opera’s plot — the expectation that the audience can be made ...
Vancouver Opera opens it season with ‘Turandot,’ ‘a fairy tale, albeit one that is bloody, a bit nasty, and still undeniably sexy.’ Art from Opera Online. When I was a child the opera bug bit hard, so ...