“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 ...

Marking 100 years since it first premiered, Opera Australia will present a spectacular, brand-new production of Puccini’s ...

A new opera series is forming in Detroit amid the rapidly growing divide between contemporary and traditional opera lovers, and is throwing down the gauntlet for old-school opera with a classic ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. American soprano Anastasiya Roytman will sing the title role in Giacomo Puccini's ...

Twenty-four years ago, when Arturo Toscanini conducted the world premiere of Giacomo Puccini’s unfinished opera, Turandot, he abruptly stopped the show in the middle of the third act—at the point ...

Princess Turandot, the namesake of Puccini's final opera, "Turandot," was easy to please when it came to men. Answer her three riddles correctly and you had her heart. Get them wrong and she had your ...

Mississippi Opera will present "Turandot" at 7:30 p.m. April 28 at Thalia Mara Hall in Jackson. Tickets are available at msopera.org. If you've never been to an opera and you're curious, April 28 in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Puccini’s final opera is an epic fairy tale set in a China of legend, loosely based on a play by 18th-century Italian dramatist Carlo Gozzi. Featuring a most unusual score with an astounding and ...

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 ...