🔴 Puccini’s TURANDOT Eva Marton (Turandot), Placido Domingo (Calàf), Leona Mitchell (Liù), Paul Plishka (Timur), conducted by James Levine. Production by Franco Zeffirelli (Fondazione Franco Zeffirelli Onlus). The Metropolitan Opera, 1987. https://metoperafree.brightcove-services.com/?videoId=6245234876001 --- TONIGHT (April 17-18): Enjoy the free stream of the full performance available from Saturday, April 17, 6:30pm US ET / Friday, April 18, 0:30am Central European Time; available for 24 hou

Writing a new completion of Puccini's "Turandot" was one of the most daunting and challenging things I've ever done. Note-for-note, I spent more time writing this piece than anything else I've written by far. To give a little inside look into how we created the ending, I made an incredibly detailed score video: all 18 minutes of the complete ending, filled with notes about the key creative choices we made: from my librettist Susan Soon He Stanton's new plot twists, to my own approach to the musi