Randal Turner was born and raised on a farm near Crawfordsville, Indiana.
Turner sang the role of Stanley Kowalski in the Italian premiere of A Streetcar Named Desire at the Teatro Regio di Torino in 2003.
[1] He has performed in several other European opera houses, including: Opernhaus Zürich, Stadttheater St. Gallen, Landestheater Linz, Vienna Kammeroper, Opéra de Monte-Carlo, Stadttheater Bielefeld, Staatstheater Darmstadt, Opera di Roma, and the Manoel Theatre in Malta.
Turner made his American debut in 2010 as Don Giovanni with Michigan Opera Theater.
[2] In 2015, he sang the role of Sherman McCoy in the premiere of The Bonfire of the Vanities: The Opera, based on Tom Wolfe's novel with the same name.