Event Cinema: Puccini's Turandot

Strathearn Arts is screening Puccini's Turandot on Friday 27 November, as part of their event cinema programme. It's a cinema screening of the opera, so you get the full production on the big screen rather than a live performance on stage.

Turandot is Puccini's final opera, and it's one of his most famous. It's set in an imagined version of China and centres on the ice-cold Princess Turandot, who declares she'll only marry the man who can solve three riddles. If he fails, he dies. The story follows Prince Calaf, who takes on the challenge, and the heartbreak that comes around it. It's a big, dramatic piece of writing, and the cinema format lets you see the staging and the singers' expressions up close in a way you'd miss from the back of an opera house.

Because it's event cinema, you're watching a recorded performance rather than a live one, which means you get the production as it was captured, not as it happens in the room. It's a good way to see a full opera without having to travel to a major opera house, and it works just as well if you're new to Puccini as it does if you've heard the famous arias before.

The screening starts at 19:30 at Strathearn Arts in Perth, and tickets are £15.