The resultant “Turandot” is such that one traditionally ... of the Metropolitan Opera’s visually overwhelming Franco Zeffirelli production (onstage through June 7) has served as the standard ...

Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium to conduct Franco Zeffirelli’s dazzling production of Puccini’s final masterpiece, which also features tenors Roberto Aronica and Marco Berti as Calàf ...

As an impoverished artist in New York in the 1980s, he had found work as an extra at the Metropolitan Opera on the set of Franco Zeffirelli’s Turandot simply because he looked Chinese.

Franco Zeffirelli’s golden production stars the great dramatic soprano Nina Stemme as Turandot, the icy Chinese princess who has renounced all men. Marco Berti is Calàf, the unknown prince who ...