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Japan Times (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
You could say that I am extremely sensitive to certain types of sound, especially those that fill you with awe and cause goose bumps. Every time I hear tenor sensation Luciano Pavarotti sing the last climactic note in "Nessun Dorma" from Puccini's opera "Turandot," the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end, and then, as fast as electricity, a wave of goose bumps engulfs my whole body. For some...
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Spectator - The Magazine (Free subscription) | 18/09/2008
Why the long wait? Brecht completed his last play, Turandot, in 1953 but only now does it receive its British premiere. This spirited, finely acted production provides the answer. The script is all wonky. Taken from the commedia dell’arte fable that inspired Puccini’s opera, this is a laborious political allegory about an impotent Chinese emperor, his spoiled eldest daughter and a rambling public...
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Opera Chic (Free subscription) | 06/07/2008
In anticipation of this year's much-hyped Puccini Festival, comes an obsession with everything Asian. Think Giacomo Puccini's Turandot and Madama Butterfly. The 54th Festival Puccini is in celebration of the 150th birth year of the maestro, where at Torre del...
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VDARE.com: Blog Articles (Free subscription) | 20/06/2008
Awhile back, a British TV talent show was won by a dumpy-looking guy named Paul Potts who wowed the crowd by singing Puccini’s “Nessun Dorma” aria from Turandot. Americans don’t know anything about opera anymore, so they don’t realize how thrilling it can be. (The British viewers were probably vaguely familiar with the aria from the [...]
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Feigned Mischief (Free subscription) | 20/05/2008
Puccini’s Tosca and Turandot. Donizetti’s Anna Bolena. So far these are the only opera productions that I have seen and enjoyed in the last 2 years since I became an opera fan. As opera tickets doesnt come easy on the pocket unlike theatre, I usually wait till it's a production that I really wanted to see that I [...]
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San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 04/05/2008
Five years ago in Berlin, San Diego Opera's Ian Campbell attended a controversial new version of Puccini's “Turandot” that had French soprano Sylvie Valayre emerging from the stomach of an enormous teddy bear and the tenor using a giant cell phone to punch in the answers to the opera's riddles.
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Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
Turandot, the haughty princess at the heart of the Puccini opera that bears her name, doesn't step into the spotlight until late in the second act.
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Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | 05/04/2008
Yes, strangely enough, I did review the Orlando Opera Company's production of Puccini's Turandot on Friday at Carr Performing Arts Centre. We didn't think that an opera review quite fit the soundboard heading, so you can find it (or should...
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Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | 05/04/2008
Turandot, the haughty princess at the heart of the Puccini opera that bears her name, doesn't step into the spotlight until late in the second act.
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Opera Today (Free subscription) | 30/03/2008
A frequent complaint about contemporary operas — or most any after Puccini's Turandot — is the lack of that memorable lyricism found in the standard repertory.
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Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | 30/03/2008
Anton Coppola's lifelong love of Puccini has served him well. He'll be at the podium for Orlando Opera's 'Turandot.' It's a spectacle that promises to be grand and glorious. Anton Coppola turned 91 last week, and he celebrated the occasion by doing what he loves:
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International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 26/03/2008
For the National Center for the Performing Arts' first season, it chose to revisit Puccini's opera set in China, "Turandot." It commissioned Hao Weiya to give the opera a new musical ending.
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 21/03/2008
Italian composer Puccini's opera "Turandot" tells a story that took place in China; and has been popular for a century throughout the world. In 1998, the Taimiao version of "Turandot," directed by Zhang Yimou, made this arrogant princess in ...
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Planet Intertwingly (Free subscription) | 05/03/2008
Posting here has been light lately because I’ve been rehearsing for my first opera production in a while, as part of the chorus for Puccini’s Turandot with the Lowell House Opera. Now’s the time to see how it all comes together, as tonight is opening night. Most of the singers are far more [...]
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vowe dot net (Free subscription) | 01/12/2007
Watch how an unassuming man without confidence turns his life around in less than two minutes by singing Nessun Dorma from Puccini's Turandot on a UK talent show. It is a stunning display of how a tenor can touch your heart. Watch what he does to Amanda on the ...
