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, it is often front and centre in the marketing for performances of Puccini’s final work. Even Ann Yee, the director of the new Opera Australia production of Turandot, claims in her program note not to have known anything else from the opera before 2022.
