“L’opéra ne m’intéresse pas du tout. Et je n’ai pour habitude d’écouter de la musique”, explique Ai Weiwei au début de ce curieux documentaire. Une étonnante déclaration, qui pose d’emblée question : ...

One hundred years since it premiered at La Scala opera house in Milan, there is still no consensus on how the opera “Turandot” should end. After struggling with the ending to “Turandot” for years, ...

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 ...

They’re striking a chord with the woke crowd. New York City’s famed Metropolitan Opera added a website trigger warning for prospective ticket buyers to Giacomo Puccini’s “Turandot,” informing ...

When the curtain rises Saturday evening on Los Angeles Opera’s “Turandot,” composer Giacomo Puccini’s last work will feature the L.A. debut of the production’s biggest star: monumental stage sets ...

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, ...

The title character in Puccini’s final opera, Turandot, could be described as an enigma wrapped in a riddle – or three riddles, to be exact. The Chinese princess challenges any suitor who would dare ...

Zachary Nelson, Stefano La Colla, Keith Jameson, and Rodell Rosel in the Lyric's current production of Puccini's Turandot Credit: Todd Rosenberg Giacomo Puccini’s Turandot, now being produced by Lyric ...

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 ...

MOBILE, Alabama --- If you were making a documentary showing the elements of a major opera flowing together in exquisite confluence, you might do well to study Mobile Opera’s triumphant “Turandot,” ...