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 ...

Enter Your Email to Unlock This Article Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Turandot (1926), the final work of ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. The past decade has witnessed a significant cultural and social shift toward greater awareness and ...

Washington’s opera lovers got the kind of traditional spectacle they crave Sunday afternoon as the Kirov Opera commenced its 2006 Kennedy Center residency with a lavish production of Puccini’s ...

A new staging of a culturally insensitive opera has community members and artists debating the value of racially stereotypical art and the conversation — or lack of one — that it can spark. Opera ...

The Metropolitan Opera Company’s Live in HD broadcast of Giacomo Puccini’s “Turandot” will be shown at the Whitefish Performing Arts Center at 10:55 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 12. Set in ancient China and ...

Giacomo Puccini did not live to write the end of "Turandot," and his death in 1924 left us a gorgeous riddle. That the opera itself is about riddles only adds to the mystery of this last work by the ...

Washington National Opera has ended its 2023–24 season with an odd revisiting of Giacomo Puccini’s last, unfinished, and, it seems, eternally problematic opera Turandot. Those who sought to buy ...

For 10 years the New York Metropolitan Opera has been providing delayed broadcasts of its productions to movie theaters across the country. Local residents were thus treated to Giacomo Puccini’s ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Christine Goerke and Yusif Eyvazov star in a revival of Franco Zeffirelli’s production, which adds gaudiness to Puccini’s sophisticated score. By ...

Composer Giacomo Puccini died in 1924, leaving Turandot unfinished. BACKGROUND: Turandot was first performed in 1926 at La Scala, in Milan. The story originated two centuries earlier, in a fiaba, or ...