One hundred years since it premiered at La Scala opera house in Milan, there is still no consensus on how the opera “Turandot” should end. After struggling with the ending to “Turandot” for years, ...

The Royal Opera’s long-serving, much-loved Music Director will probably beg to differ from a position of infinitely greater experience, but it struck me that so much of Puccini’s swansong, special ...

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 ...

“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 ...

The Royal Opera has chosen Andrei Serban’s venerable staging of Turandot, Puccini’s unfinished final opera, to open the 2013-14 season and although this production is almost thirty years’ old, ...

A major studio opera recording is rare nowadays, but add in Kaufmann, Radvanovsky and some unusual material and it has all the makings of something unique indeed. Neil Fisher visits Rome to sit in on ...

The Canadian Opera Company has kicked off its season of fairy tale-inspired operas, leading with Puccini’s final opera, Turandot. The story is so simple it draws you right in: the Princess Turandot, ...

My career in journalism has been varied and wide-ranging. I’m an author, a documentary maker, a reporter, and my work has sparked four commissions of inquiry in Canada. My touchstone in journalism has ...

I'm sorry, you'll have to speak up: my ears are still ringing from the battle of the belters at Covent Garden last week. The Royal Opera's new season opened with a spectacular revival of their hit ...