The ensemble for "Turandot" at Detroit's Music Hall Center includes Christine Goerke, Latonia Moore, Limmie Pulliam and Alvin ...

There was a time when the toughest ticket to procure on the Minnesota Orchestra’s schedule was the annual Sommerfest opera finale. A one-night-only affair, it often involved top-flight soloists and ...

The conventional wisdom about “Turandot,” Puccini’s last operatic extravaganza about sex and sadism in excelsus, is that the great composer couldn’t finish the opera because of his death from throat ...

The Hollywood Bowl, it goes without saying, is no place for subtlety. John Mauceri, the conductor who presides over the Bowl more than any other, knows that and operates his Hollywood Bowl Orchestra ...

The Minnesota Opera production of Giacomo Puccini’s “Turandot” probably won’t cause you to walk out of St. Paul’s Ordway Center humming the set. No, you’re likely to have one of opera’s great earworm ...

The audience roared its approval at the conclusion of Cincinnati Opera's "Turandot" in Music Hall Saturday night – and for good reason. It was, without a doubt, the most dazzling production of Puccini ...

“All the music I have written up to now,” said Giacomo Puccini, “seems a jest in comparison.” He was speaking of his last and most ambitious opera, Turandot, which he left unfinished at his death in ...

Move over Barber of Seville. Houston Grand Opera has an even more exciting show this spring: Puccini's Turandot. Friday's performance at the Wortham Theater Center triumphed where it matters most in ...

Wagner’s Brunnhilde? Absolutely. Puccini’s Turandot? A stretch of the imagination. Those were the first words that ran through my mind as warmly smiling, strikingly blond and statuesque Irene Theorin ...

Milan heard it first, then Dresden, Vienna, Rome, Rimini, Buenos Aires, Berlin. Last week it was given its U. S. premiere at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan—Turandot, posthumous opera of ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by critic’s notebook Mr. Nézet-Séguin’s first performance of the Metropolitan Opera this season offers a glimpse into the company’s artistic future. By ...