An April 24 performance of Puccini's "Turandot" – one that featured vast choral and orchestral forces and first-rate soloists ...

Michael Fabiano, who plays Calaf in Ai Weiwei’s Turandot, discusses how Turandot the character suppresses speech, leading to death and destruction, a construct that infuses Weiwei’s version of ...

Clearly, the “ice that sets you on fire” is Turandot — and much the same could be said for the opera itself. However difficult it may be to warm up to its plot or characters, the music in ...

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 ...

Her Turandot was regal, ferocious, icy as a character from Frozen, then melting and frail as she thaws to Calaf’s overtures of love. She blew away the orchestra with her creamy reserves of ...

In conducting his first full-length opera in concert with the Minnesota Orchestra, music director Thomas Søndergård has ...

There was a time when the toughest ticket to procure on the Minnesota Orchestra’s schedule was the annual Sommerfest opera ...