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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
“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 ...
Christine Goerke as Princess Turandot and (Limmie Pulliam as Calàf in Turandot at Moores School of Music. Credit: Photo by Rafael Lopez Every time Giacomo Puccini’s final masterpiece Turandot (1926) ...
Puccini's Turandot, left unfinished at the composer's death, has soldiered on for more than three quarters of a century in a completion by his contemporary Franco Alfano, commissioned by Toscanini and ...
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 ...