| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 16-Feb-2013 Royal Swedish Opera | The Nina Stemme show: Puccini's Turandot at the Royal Swedish Opera |
 An obsessively man-hating princess, a slave girl who really needs to open up a bit more about her feelings, a prince who actually fell in love at first sight, and an unhealthily large dose of exoticism? Why, it can only be Puccini’s Turandot. Saturday marked the première of the Royal Swedish Opera’s new production of Puccini’s final opera, with none other than Nina Stemme taking on the title role for the first time.
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| 14-Feb-2012 Sydney Opera House: Opera Theatre | The power of love: Opera Australia's Turandot |
 in Opera Australias Turandot SS12 ©Branco Gaica (121).jpg) Opera Australia pulled out all the stops for their latest production of Puccini’s Turandot: an excellent cast, fabulous choreography, amazing costumes and a great sense of drama all combined to make it a wonderful production at Sydney Opera House. The Opera Theatre is comparatively small by modern standards and is a very intimate venue in which to see an opera. It has the effect of enveloping the audience and drawing them right into the action.Read full review... | |
| 10-Dec-2011 National Theatre | Turandot 2.0 |
, Emanuele DAguanno (Pong), Fabio Previati (Ping), in Bayerische Staatsopers production of Turandot, by Wilfried Hösl.jpg) It’s no surprise that Turandot is one of the most performed and best loved operas of all time, coming in at number 15 in the Operabase league table. Its beautiful music and lavish orchestration, along with its very exciting and exotic story are what operatic dreams are made of. The evil princess, who submits all her suitors to a cruel test, with failure punishable by death, provides the perfect starting point for a dramatically charged and emotionally rich opera, and it is this depth and excitement that make Turandot one of my favourite operas in the repertoire.
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