Richard Hetherington forced to play Prince Calàf in Giacomo Puccini’s Turandot after French tenor Roberto Alagna taken ill ...

A theatre boss -- still dressed in his everyday workwear of jumper and chinos -- stepped in mid-performance to make sure the ...

Were operas to be identified like episodes of Friends, Turandot would be “the one with Nessun Dorma”. This beloved tenor aria has achieved a life of its own away from its parent opera. Consequently, ...

French tenor Roberto Alagna, singing the role of Calàf, became ill after the second act. With no understudy available, Richard Hetherington, head of music at the Royal Opera, took to the stage after ...

Nessun Dormageddon: Audience members ‘boo and throw things’ after Royal Opera House chief steps in for sick tenor - Other fans defend Richard Hetherington, who ‘deserves a medal’ after stepping in at ...

Big cast. Big sets. Big songs. Big emotions. If you're ever tasked with trying to come up with the most quintessentially operatic of all operas, Giacomo Puccini's "Turandot" would be pretty hard to ...

Christine Goerke as Princess Turandot and (Limmie Pulliam as Calàf in Turandot at Moores School of Music. Credit: Photo by Rafael Lopez Every time Giacomo Puccini’s final masterpiece Turandot (1926) ...

Enter Your Email to Unlock This Article Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Turandot (1926), the final work of ...

Washington’s opera lovers got the kind of traditional spectacle they crave Sunday afternoon as the Kirov Opera commenced its 2006 Kennedy Center residency with a lavish production of Puccini’s ...