Puccini’s Turandot, with its combination of myth, ritual and emotional extremity, suits dark evenings and the build-up to Christmas, when audiences seem especially ready for spectacle and intensity.

The orchestra played on. Alagna’s co-star Ildiko Komlosi gamely began what was meant to be a duet, addressing it to no one in particular: “Di quale nobil fierezza ti balena il volto! (What noble ...

Long ReadDominique Meyer, the French director of Milan's opera, is due to step down in early March. He will be replaced by an Italian, as has been the case in many of the country's cultural ...

Tenor Roberto Alagna at the 47ᵉ edition of the Paleo Festival, in Nyon (Switzerland), July 28, 2024. VALENTIN FLAURAUD / AP With his cream-colored cap, tight pants and sneakers, Roberto Alagna strode ...

The third Downton Abbey movie has begun pre-production for filming as confirmed by the official Instagram for Highclere Castle and today by Imelda Staunton. Toronto Comicon 2024 was a hit attraction ...

We updated the Oscars live as each winner was announced, right through to the Best Picture winner - Oppenheimer, which won seven Academy Awards in total. Kung Fu Panda 4 debuts in top spot at weekend ...

Aria Code is a podcast that pulls back the curtain on some of the most famous arias in opera history, with insight from the biggest voices of our time, including Roberto Alagna, Diana Damrau, Sondra ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Against the odds, the Italian double bill delivered the goods. Illness has been running rife through the cast ...

This revival of Damiano Michieletto’s admired production of opera’s most successful double bill was to have starred the world’s top tenor – Jonas Kaufmann – in both shows, with star soprano Ermonela ...

Roberto Alagna has sung with a wife on the Met stage before. In fact, he was married on that stage, in 1996—to Angela Gheorghiu, the Romanian soprano. (Alagna is an Italian-French tenor.) Presiding ...

Roberto Alagna, Leontina Vaduva, Ruth Ann Swenson, Thomas Hampson, Samuel Ramey, et al.; Philharmonia Orchestra and London Voices, conducted by Antonio Pappano This new “Boheme” is too good to get ...

Recorded in August, the married tenor and soprano duo perform arias and duets from the Château de la Chèvre d’Or perched on a cliff in the South of France. selections performed include the love duet ...