Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Giacomo Puccini (Micah Fluellen / Los Angeles Times) The Republican National Convention climaxed last week with its presidential ...

Hong Kong composer and soprano Lora Chow adapts The Flower Princess into a Western-infused production to make the genre more ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mar. 4—A mysterious prince solves three riddles and melts a princess's heart while breaking another's. Love triumphs, but it's ...

The Italian composer Giacomo Puccini died of a heart attack on Nov. 29, 1924 without finishing his newest opera “Turandot.” The piece was later finished by Franco Alfano, but remains a curiosity in ...

Ai Weiwei mounted a production of Puccini’s Turandot at the Rome Opera House amid the Covid pandemic recovery and the war in Ukraine. It also was Weiwei’s first opera. Maxim Derevianko, director of ...

Although Puccini’s “Turandot” and “Madama Butterfly” are under fire lately for their stereotypical depictions of Asian characters, opera companies are reluctant to eliminate these hugely popular ...

In the Turandot presscon, someone pointed out that opera is so hard to nurture in a place like Manila. True. Opera is not part of culture of Manila. Not true. In the middle 1920s, Filipino opera ...

The Republican National Convention climaxed last week with its presidential nominee's name spelled out in fireworks over the National Mall. The first family was then serenaded by a pop operatic tenor ...