Anyone who missed the San Francisco Opera’s season-opening production of “Turandot” in September can now officially quit bawling about it. Puccini’s grand, chilly exercise in bloodthirsty pageantry ...
The third and final act of Puccini’s “Turandot” is, famously, when everything falls apart. This is when the insoluble contradictions of the opera’s plot — the expectation that the audience can be made ...