Despite the danger, prince Calaf falls hopelessly in love with Turandot at first sight ... fable nature of the tale while the three main characters are all played with great conviction to make ...

American and Canadian soprano Sondra Radvanovsky is widely regarded as one of the foremost sopranos of our time. She is renowned as a leading interpreter of bel canto and verismo, particularly works ...

Maxim Derevianko’s “Ai Weiwei’s Turandot” has been picked up by Berlin-based doc specialist Rise and Shine World Sales, ahead of its international premiere on March 21 in the Highlights ...

And later today it welcomes audiences for the international premiere of Ai Weiwei’s Turandot, a film directed by Maxim Derevianko about the artist’s production of the classic Puccini opera.

In this world, Turandot and her emperor father are seen as divine allowing Puccini to move away from the ‘verismo’ or realism of his earlier operas with the characters’ choices only making ...

Turandot is often considered a flawed masterpiece ... rather disturbing with its bloodthirsty titular character (here performed masterfully by Sondra Radvanovsky) who is conquered by the love ...

In the case of his last opera, Turandot, there is a further twist. Puccini died before he could finish the score and it fell to Franco Alfano to produce a final scene based on Puccini’s sketches.