Turandot is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini, completed by Franco Alfano, and set to a libretto in Italian by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni. Though Puccini's first interest in the subject ...

So, after 76 years of Puccini’s “Turandot,” performed with a glorious climax by Franco Alfano, Luciano Berio is commissioned to rewrite the ending (“Bridge to the Future,” by Jan Breslauer, May 26).

Here’s a quick sports quiz: who won the 1990 soccer World Cup? Germany, of course. But just as easy for soccer fans is this one: Which tune did Luciano Pavarotti get everyone humming? The answer is ...

Turandot is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini, completed by Franco Alfano, and set to a libretto in Italian by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni. Though Puccini's first interest in the subject ...

One problem with mounting a rare opera to serve a star rather than for its artistic strength is that things can happen to stars. That possibility became a reality for the Metropolitan Opera on ...

While best known today for having composed the ending to Puccini's unfinished Turandot, Franco Alfano wrote some dozen operas, including Cyrano de Bergerac (1936) with a libretto by Henri Cain based ...