Word: turandote
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...prince’s quest, and the audience in Lowell Dining Hall is transported from the surrounding coziness of column-strewn walls to the lush majesty of legendary Peking. The Lowell House Opera’s (LHO) ambitious 70th anniversary production, Giacomo Puccini’s “Turandot,” successfully transforms the dining hall into an exotic and vibrant vision, where the power of love reigns supreme...
...perform Giacomo Puccini’s “Turandot” in honor of the 150th anniversary of the maestro’s birth. The opera, set in legendary Peking, focuses on a suitor named Calaf, who must answer the three riddles of the enchanting but cruel princess Turandot to win her hand and keep his head.The costumes in “Turandot” attempt to stay faithful to traditional styles of Chinese dress while maintaining Puccini’s vision of Peking as a grandiose Orientalist fantasy. Though LHO has often borrowed costumes in the past, each...
...opera, he was both perplexed by the invitation and, frankly, ignorant of the medium. He discussed the commission with Zhao; all he knew was that the opera was something about a princess. As Zhang told Asia Source in 2004, Zhao "was excited and said that it might be Turandot, a very famous opera and the story was set in China. He talked a lot about Puccini and other basic knowledge of opera.... He found a videotape of Turandot for me. It was a version released by the New York Metropolitan Opera...but I still didn't understand what was being...
...under the direction of Peter Gelb, seems to have gone movie-mad this season. Movie-director mad, anyway. Zeffirelli, the opera and film visionary, has four productions on the season's schedule: La Boheme, Tosca, La Traviata and Turandot. Julie Taymor ? best known for her Lion King on Broadway but also director of the films Titus, Frida and the forthcoming Beatles pastiche Across the Universe ? has condensed her zazzy Zauberflote, which premiered at the Met in 2004, into a 100min., kid-friendly Magic Flute. And Anthony Minghella (The English Patient, Cold Mountain, the current Breaking and Entering) did a rapturously...
...Zhang staged Turandot in 1997. Now he's hooked up with his old friend Tan Dun ? they knew each other in the early 80s, before the budding composer left China to study at Columbia University and devise his own musical entente between China and the West? for what was probably the Met's most eagerly anticipated original production of the new millennium. Tan Dun's alchemic mixture of influences might produce an opera to span the globe: real world music. The Met promised the largest production since its War and Peace, suggesting that Zhang would take the visual splendor...