We enjoyed the music of Puccini, no issue with the orchestra. The voices were very good other than the occasional could not hear the tenor very well. The weak point of the production was its staging. It distracted from the music and the story. We found a number of aspects clumsy . One is the tenor singing Nessun dorma sitting down and the same could be said of Turandot's aria also in that position. Turandot's removal of her cape was totally pointless and hard to do , so it distracted. The pictures distracted , they were too big, looked like people off the street , not always used apropiately they did not capture the drama as intended. Also things like dead Liu remaining covered on the floor while the tenor and Turandot sing their love song . The tenor came across as heartless as Turandot in his reaction to Liu 's death. Liu crawling towards Turandot was annoying. . It was as if having chosen such a minimalist approach all you could do is have people on chairs and crawling on the floor . There were places in the opera where audience should have applauded but didn't not necessarily because of the singing but because it did not draw them into the story. My reaction represents the view of all four of us who attended. I'm Italian and I grew up with Opera.
