A concert performance in an orchestral reduction of Puccini’s colossal final opera was stylishly led by conductor Naomi Woo with José de Eça’s Calaf heading a strong cast ...

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

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José de Eça and Anne Sophie Duprels lead a striking concert staging, with Naomi Woo drawing committed playing from the City ...

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 ...

Though burdened with tradition and constrained by the narrow-minded expectations of its more conservative patrons, the Metropolitan Opera pulled off a spectacular feat of serendipity last Thursday.

For 84 years, opera buffs have puzzled over how the Italian composer Giacomo Puccini meant to end one of his best-loved operas, Turandot, which is set in a mythical China. Puccini died before he ...

Puccini’s original score was ‘finished’ by Franco Alfano, whose additions are heard uncut on this dramatic all-star recording Antonio Pappano has never yet conducted Turandot in the theatre – and that ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Music Review By Vivien Schweitzer One of the enigmas of Puccini’s “Turandot” is why anyone would seek to marry a man-hating princess with a track ...

When the 20th Daegu International Musical Festival raised its curtains on June 19, it opened with a homecoming. The ...

The Republican National Convention climaxed last week with its presidential nominee’s name spelled out in fireworks over the National Mall. The first family was then serenaded by a pop operatic tenor ...