Angela Meade as Turandot and Michael Fabiano as Calàf in Puccini's Turandot at the Metropolitan Opera. (Ken Howard / Met ...

I’d say that “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” is not a maxim that has ever been used for Puccini’s Chinese-inspired fairytale, TURANDOT, which returned for another go-around at the Met the other day ...

The soprano is all but unknown in New York, having only sung a single performance of Lady Macbeth in Verdi’s Macbeth in 2019.

This Orientalist classic, left unfinished, has had to be completed since Puccini’s death. A new version hands that task to artists with Asian roots. Puccini’s “Turandot” at the Metropolitan Opera, in ...