“This is a wonderful first-time opera — a great introduction for a child, or a date, or anybody who hasn’t gone to the opera before. It has such accessible music and an exciting story; you can watch ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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

A lot can change in 10 years. A decade ago, tenor Michael Fabiano was a rising star in the opera world. Now the in-demand singer performs regularly on some of the world's top stages, including New ...

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, ...

Vancouver Opera opens it season with ‘Turandot,’ ‘a fairy tale, albeit one that is bloody, a bit nasty, and still undeniably sexy.’ Art from Opera Online. When I was a child the opera bug bit hard, so ...

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