“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 ...

Twenty-four years ago, when Arturo Toscanini conducted the world premiere of Giacomo Puccini’s unfinished opera, Turandot, he abruptly stopped the show in the middle of the third act—at the point ...

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 ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. American soprano Anastasiya Roytman will sing the title role in Giacomo Puccini's ...

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 final opera is an epic fairy tale set in a China of legend, loosely based on a play by 18th-century Italian dramatist Carlo Gozzi. Featuring a most unusual score with an astounding and ...

Stefano Vignati, Music Director and Principal Conductor of Opera Carolina, has been selected to conduct the opening of the ...

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 ...

A reimagined version of Turandot is staged at the Shaanxi Opera House in Xi'an, capital of northwest China's Shaanxi Province, Nov. 9, 2025.(Shaanxi Opera House/Handout via Xinhua) A reimagined ...

The glittery final scene of Puccini’s Turandot at the Met. Marty Sohl / Met Opera The return to the Metropolitan Opera of the late Franco Zeffirelli’s glitzy production of Turandot is hardly an ...

Coming off his acclaimed performance as Caláf in Los Angeles Opera’s “Turandot,” tenor Russell Thomas undertakes his most personal role to date in the world premiere of “Fire and Blue Sky,” a ...