Don’t tone down Turandot, says her greatest interpreter

Californian soprano Lise Lindstrom has spent most of her career playing a “cold-hearted so-and-so” – the titular princess in Puccini’s Turandot – and disagrees with the push to tone down operas to appease modern sensibilities.

Hailed as the world’s best living performer of Turandot, Lindstrom will from January 12 reprise the Persian princess for the third time for Opera Australia, in a production by Graeme Murphy.