Giacomo Puccini did not live to write the end of "Turandot," and his death in 1924 left us a gorgeous riddle. That the opera itself is about riddles only adds to the mystery of this last work by the ...

Last week, Opera Philadelphia opened its new season by producing three operas simultaneously, including two premieres, and a tried-and-true classic: “Turandot” by Puccini. The offering by Puccini has ...

The Feb. 28 staging starring Limmie Pulliam, Latonia Moore and Detroiter Christine Goerke will launch Music Hall’s new ...

The highly responsive audience for the one-night-only performance of "Turandot" cheered, applauded and whistled spontaneously all evening.

OK. What is the operatic role that kills men – and soprano voices? Turandot, of course, is the right answer to all of those questions. This frosty princess in legendary China, the title character of ...

The Atlanta Opera creates a compellingly dramatic and opulent show with its latest production of Giacomo Puccini's "Turandot," currently at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre through May 7.

Turandot was originally seen live in movie theaters on January 30 as part of the groundbreaking The Met: Live in HD series, which transmits live performances to more than 2,000 movie theaters and ...

Turandot is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini (December 22, 1858 – November 29, 1924). Puccini’s final opera is an epic fairy tale set in a China of legend, loosely based on the play “Turandot ...

Composer Giacomo Puccini died in 1924, leaving Turandot unfinished. BACKGROUND: Turandot was first performed in 1926 at La Scala, in Milan. The story originated two centuries earlier, in a fiaba, or ...

For 84 years, opera buffs have puzzled over how the Italian composer Giacomo Puccini meant to end one of his best-loved operas, Turandot, which is set in a mythical China. Puccini died before he ...