Life, they say, begins at forty, which is precisely the age of Andrei Serban's version of Turandot for the Royal Opera. This meticulously crafted version had plenty of life before 40, but the ...

Talk to Brother Silas first in Moosewood to access the chamber and catch 500 million fishes to unlock the Cults Curse pool. The Cults Curse pool is exclusive to the chamber and available only after ...

A poster for a 1926 production of ‘Turandot’ at the Teatro alla Scala Nonetheless, he had a connection to Turandot. In 1988, as a young man living in New York with his brother, Franco ...

And later today it welcomes audiences for the international premiere of Ai Weiwei’s Turandot, a film directed by Maxim Derevianko about the artist’s production of the classic Puccini opera.

With the crash of a gong or six, director Andrei Zerban’s classic 1984 production of Puccini’s final work Turandot, which combines elements of opera, Chinese theatre and the Italian dramatic ...

In the case of his last opera, Turandot, there is a further twist. Puccini died before he could finish the score and it fell to Franco Alfano to produce a final scene based on Puccini’s sketches.

which opened in 1974 and was replaced only in 2017 – Andrei Şerban’s production of Turandot is now the oldest in the company’s repertoire. It was first staged by the Royal Opera at the Los ...

Even more than 40 years since its original run, Andrei Șerban’s production of Turandot succeeds in impressing audiences with its animated choreography, spectacular use of colours and masks ...

In ancient Greece, people used curse tablets (katadesmoi) to call upon chthonic deities to bring misfortune or bind adversaries. Credit: Pankratos, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons The ancient ...

Much of the action is ceremonial, the sadism stylised. The eager crowd bays as the executioner sharpens his knife while the next willing contestant in Turandot’s game of riddles enters. Grotesque ...