Ian Robertson's Opera Chorus dispatched its large assignment superbly, especially in the ever-changing choral scenes of Act 1. Bass Raymond Aceto gave a sonorous, affecting performance as Timur, Calaf's blind and aged father. Ping, Pang and Pong, the clownish government functionaries, were sung vividly but not very precisely by Hyung Yun, Greg Fedderly and Daniel Montenegro.
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Theorin helped that happen, with a vocally rounded and dramatically responsive performance. It requires us to care about the emotional state of a bloodthirsty tyrant who subjects her many suitors to a life-or-death game of riddles - and to celebrate along with her and her ultimate betrothed as they join hands across the corpse of his faithful servant Liù. That urgency can sometimes be hard to come by in "Turandot," whose dramatic failings are patent even by operatic standards.