How a Korean 'Turandot' traveled to Europe and came home a decade on

When the 20th Daegu International Musical Festival raised its curtains on June 19, it opened with a homecoming.

The festival's flagship production — a musical reimagining of Giacomo Puccini's opera "Turandot" — returned to the stage for the first time in seven years, this time refracted through the European staging it inspired abroad.

DIMF first premiered "Turandot" in 2011, as the opening work of the festival's fifth edition.

The reception was bruising.

"When we first unveiled 'Turandot' 15 yea ...