The following is excerpted from a review by Kenneth Turan that appeared in the Los Angeles Times, September 14, 2001: When Zubin Mehta decided in 1997 to mount a new production of "Turandot," the ...

This Orientalist classic, left unfinished, has had to be completed since Puccini’s death. A new version hands that task to artists with Asian roots. Puccini’s “Turandot” at the Metropolitan Opera, in ...

The Royal Opera House’s Turandot has now been running so long it feels less like a revival and more like a listed structure. You don’t attend it so much as pass through it, like a familiar corridor or ...

Create an account or log in to save stories. Opera returns to the Minnesota Orchestra this week, marking the ensemble’s first full concert opera under music director Thomas Søndergård, who took over ...

My friend Mahmoud Abdallah, the former head of Misr Insurance Holding Company, took me from his home in Princeton, New Jersey to the Metropolitan Opera House in New York to watch the final rehearsal ...