Turandot, daughter of Emperor Altoum, has decreed that she will only marry if a suitor of noble blood can answer three riddles. If he cannot, the price will be his head. The most recent failed ...
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 ...
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 ...
DETROIT – Michigan Opera Theatre opens its 2007 Spring Opera Season, sponsored by Cadillac, with Giacomo Puccini's "Turandot," a timeless opera of sacrificial love, secret identity and heartless ...
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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 ...
Enjoy opera superstar Liudmyla Monastyrska in the title role of the legendary cold-hearted princess. Marco Armiliato conducts Puccini’s score with tenor Yonghoon Lee as Calàf, the bold prince ...
Giacomo Puccini was suffering from throat cancer as he tried to complete his last masterpiece, Turandot, in 1924. The composition of a final duet between Calaf and Turandot remained pending when he ...
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 ...
David Hockney's mammoth set piece for "Turandot" towers over senior design manager Carolina Angulo, technical director Jeff Kleeman, center, and Rupert Hemmings, vice president of artistic planning at ...