Richard Bratby

An old production that’s aged better than most: Royal Opera’s Turandot reviewed

Plus: at the Barbican a whole evening of Bliss

Andrei Serban’s 1984 production of Turandot deploys brains as well as bling. Image: © Marc Brenner
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