When it comes to name recognition in Italian opera, Giacomo Puccini usually comes in second place to the slightly more famed Giuseppe Verdi. If there were a ranking for the most spectacularly groomed ...

Among all the composers whose operas have continued to enthral audiences, Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) is unrivalled. That’s perhaps surprising, because he created some of his most successful works in ...

A new edition of Puccini's score springs to life in a meticulously prepared Opera Rara concert performance at the Barbican.

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The Metropolitan Opera has invited 70 influencers to help convince a younger, online audience that opera isn’t scary or even ...

Opening the 2024/25 Season at the London Coliseum, English National Opera will commemorate 100 years since Puccini's death with the return of Jonathan Miller's iconic production of La bohème, opening ...

THE BASICS: LA BOHEME, the famous opera by Giacomo Puccini, presented by Buffalo Opera Unlimited, opened December 1st and encores Sunday, December 3rd at 2:30 in Buffalo State University’s Rockwell ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Ever since Giacomo Puccini died without finishing his last opera, “Turandot,” audiences have thrilled to its soaring melodies like “Nessun Dorma,” but also perhaps lamented the lack of ...

Asmik Grigorian laughs when she recalls that she had been singing professionally for more than a decade when the International Opera Awards proclaimed her the "best young female singer" of 2016. "So ...

Giacomo Puccini’s beloved one-act comic opera “Gianni Schicci” is coming to the Bornemann Theatre in San Marcos for three enchanting performances Sept. 5-7. In this production, Genesis Opera Theatre’s ...

The title role of Madame Butterfly in Opera Philadelphia's production is represented by a puppet, voiced and manipulated by Karen Chia-ling Ho. (Emma Lee/WHYY) From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South ...

Twenty-four years ago, when Arturo Toscanini conducted the world premiere of Giacomo Puccini’s unfinished opera, Turandot, he abruptly stopped the show in the middle of the third act—at the point ...