Turandot

She sings most of the big Puccini gals specializing in Turandot, Butterfly and Tosca.

SOS 2009

Turandot is pretty grand as these things go and the production didn't miniaturize anything -- full orchestra, colorful (very "Oriental") sets and costumes, big voices in the big parts.

That's Why We Clap Roger Sutton 2008

Turandot is pretty grand as these things go and the production didn't miniaturize anything -- full orchestra, colorful (very "Oriental") sets and costumes, big voices in the big parts.

Archive 2008-03-01 Roger Sutton 2008

With a budget of $15 million, this "Turandot" -- which runs for only eight performances -- reaches new heights of operatic opulence.

Forbidden Arias 2008

But something about Mr. Zeffirelli's "Turandot" - which, like most Zeffirelli productions, was itself a thing of abundant excess - tempted him, so much so that he turned down a competing offer to sing with the Geneva Opera.

NYT > Home Page By MARGALIT FOX 2010

"Turandot" -- anything that promises laughter and forgetting.

Latest News from SYS-CON ITALIA 2009

Timur and Liù (who is in love with Calaf) also beg him to reconsider, but he strikes the gong and calls Turandot's name.

Opera Today 2009

Who recorded the aria "Nessun Dorma" from Puccini's "Turandot", which was used as the theme tune for the BBC television's coverage of the 1990 football World Cup?

The Friday Brain-teaser from Credo Reference 2009

She opened with a dazzling "In questa reggia" from Puccini's "Turandot," then offered a moving "Liebestod" from Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde," and closed with a group of songs by Harold Arlen and Jerome Kern.

'A Quiet Place,''Intermezzo' Show NYC Opera At Its Best AP 2010

Ms. Franklin's current predilection is not for rappers but for opera, famously since the 1998 Grammy Awards telecast when she sang Puccini's "Nessun Dorma" as a last-minute substitute for Luciano Pavarotti; that "Turandot" aria is also the last track of her 2007 album "Jewel in the Crown."

A Not-So-Odd Musical Couple 2010