For more than nine decades, the Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcasts have brought opera into millions of homes, playing a vital and unparalleled role in the development and appreciation of opera in ...

The Forum will present the Metropolitan Opera’s “Turandot” Live in HD at 7 p.m. Thursday at Prior-Jollek Hall on the Antilles School campus on St. Thomas. Opera’s leading dramatic soprano Nina Stemme ...

There was a time when the toughest ticket to procure on the Minnesota Orchestra’s schedule was the annual Sommerfest opera finale. A one-night-only affair, it often involved top-flight soloists and ...

In conducting his first full-length opera in concert with the Minnesota Orchestra, music director Thomas Søndergård has pulled off a stunner, with fireworks singing from not only a terrific host of ...

Ludwig van Beethoven had a visitor. A young man stepped into the legendary composer’s attic apartment in Vienna. He was introduced as Gioachino Rossini. “Ah ...

Watch as renowned tenor SeokJong Baek sings an excerpt from Calàf’s Act III aria in an early dress rehearsals for the Met Opera's Turandot. Baek just made his Met debut last year.

Christine Goerke as Princess Turandot and (Limmie Pulliam as Calàf in Turandot at Moores School of Music. Credit: Photo by Rafael Lopez Every time Giacomo Puccini’s final masterpiece Turandot (1926) ...

Puccini’s Turandot, with its combination of myth, ritual and emotional extremity, suits dark evenings and the build-up to Christmas, when audiences seem especially ready for spectacle and intensity.