Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Australia’s premier opera company is being called out for its traditional use of “yellowface” in its current performances of ...

Were operas to be identified like episodes of Friends, Turandot would be “the one with Nessun Dorma”. This beloved tenor aria has achieved a life of its own away from its parent opera. Consequently, ...

3 Full Cast Set For MAYBE HAPPY ENDING North American Tour The production is of course shrouded in an air of uncertainty. An essay in the program presupposes the audience’s discomfort at seeing ...

NEW YORK—What is the most spectacular set at The Metropolitan Opera this season? As in many prior years, it is Franco Zeffirelli’s Peking Imperial Palace in “Turandot,” which was first unveiled in ...

NEW YORK—“Turandot” was Puccini’s last opera, unfinished at his death and completed by Franco Alfano. At the world premiere in 1926 at La Scala, the conductor Arturo Toscanini (who was a friend of ...