OperaWire caught up with Alagna at the Royal Ballet and Opera House, Covent Garden, where he is performing the role of Calaf ...

Were operas to be identified like episodes of Friends, Turandot would be “the one with Nessun Dorma”. This beloved tenor aria ...

Maxim Derevianko’s “Ai Weiwei’s Turandot” has been picked up by Berlin-based doc specialist Rise and Shine World Sales, ahead of its international premiere on March 21 in the Highlights section of the ...

In conducting his first full-length opera in concert with the Minnesota Orchestra, music director Thomas Søndergård has pulled off a stunner, with fireworks singing from not only a terrific host of ...

Ai Weiwei mounted a production of Puccini’s Turandot at the Rome Opera House amid the Covid pandemic recovery and the war in Ukraine. It also was Weiwei’s first opera. Maxim Derevianko, director of ...

Get ready for an opera of high-stakes drama, breathtaking spectacle, and one of the most legendary scores ever composed. Puccini’s final masterpiece, Turandot, comes to life in a production that ...

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 ...

Puccini’s Turandot, with its combination of myth, ritual and emotional extremity, suits dark evenings and the build-up to Christmas, when audiences seem especially ready for spectacle and intensity.

The Minnesota Orchestra will perform the opera “Turandot” this week. It’s the first opera performed under the leadership of music director Thomas Søndergård.