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According to the General Director of Gulfshore Opera, Steffanie Pearce, Turandot is the biggest opera production of her 20-year career. Pearce updated the traditional setting of the performance by ...

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 ...

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 ...

Grand opera doesn't get much grander. Gulfshore Opera's icy, fantasy-themed "Turandot" boasts a whopping 65 chorus singers. Plus six extras, nine principal singers and an orchestra with 32-62 players ...

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Although Puccini’s “Turandot” and “Madama Butterfly” are under fire lately for their stereotypical depictions of Asian characters, opera companies are reluctant to eliminate these hugely popular ...

One way to look at Puccini’s “Turandot” is as the “The Hunger Games” of the opera world. There is no female warrior wielding a bow, but the title character of “Turandot” has been described as ...

At a warehouse on the outskirts of Downtown Los Angeles' Garment District, the LA Opera Costume Shop is a hub of creativity and craftsmanship, bustling with final preparations for this season's grand ...

On Wednesday, the festival hosts the world premiere of Animality, the great Chinese artist’s latest documentary. And later today it welcomes audiences for the international premiere of Ai Weiwei’s ...