“This is a wonderful first-time opera — a great introduction for a child, or a date, or anybody who hasn’t gone to the opera before. It has such accessible music and an exciting story; you can watch ...

But we don’t readily think of Puccini in terms of grand opera, ALL CAPS, unless we narrow our focus to the Italian master’s last work, TURANDOT, the one opera he didn’t live to complete or see ...

“I want scared children,” Mark Meier, the stage director says. “Scared children.” I’ve arrived at the beginning of Union Avenue Opera’s run-through for Turandot, during the frantic mob scene in which ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Vancouver Opera opens it season with ‘Turandot,’ ‘a fairy tale, albeit one that is bloody, a bit nasty, and still undeniably sexy.’ Art from Opera Online. When I was a child the opera bug bit hard, so ...

It’s one of Opera Australia’s most beloved productions – an opera with a truly stirring story at its heart, a stunning aria on its lips and which presents an absolute spectacle for the eyes. But at ...

The Lyric Opera House is proud to present Washington National Opera (WNO) performing Giacomo Puccini's Turandot in concert, Tuesday, June 2 at 7:30 p.m. The concert is adapted from WNO's production of ...