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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A lot can change in 10 years. And lot's changed for Southwest Florida's Gulfshore Opera, as well. Audiences have grown. The ...

The Atlanta Opera creates a compellingly dramatic and opulent show with its latest production of Giacomo Puccini's "Turandot," currently at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre through May 7.

Backstage during rehearsals for Puccini's Turandot at the Royal Opera House. Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian Puccini’s opera returns to Covent Garden in a vivid staging that, although 40 years ...

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 ...

This Orientalist classic, left unfinished, has had to be completed since Puccini’s death. A new version hands that task to artists with Asian roots. Puccini’s “Turandot” at the Metropolitan Opera, in ...

But Davies, having seen the American choreographer’s work in Tony and Olivier-nominated shows throughout London and New York, insisted upon Yee finding her own interpretation: “She said, ‘just listen ...

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,” ...