Stefano Vignati, Music Director and Principal Conductor of Opera Carolina, has been selected to conduct the opening of the ...

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 ...

Puccini composed some of the most iconic operas in the repertoire, from “Madama Butterfly” and “Tosca” to “Turandot” and “La Boheme.” But the Italian composer had to convince his publisher that his ...

The Metropolitan Opera is streaming free encore presentations every night during the pandemic from the Live in HD series on their website. Each stream becomes available at 7:30 p.m. EDT and remains ...

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 ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. As companies around the globe celebrate the centennial of Giacomo Puccini’s death ...

La bohème is an opera in four acts, composed by Giacomo Puccini between 1893 and 1895 to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, based on Scènes de la vie de bohème (1851) by Henri ...

Long before Jonathan Larson adapted the classic Giacomo Puccini opera “La Boheme” into his groundbreaking rock opera “Rent” (timed to “Boheme”‘s 100th anniversary), the soaring, emotional Italian ...

ANYONE heading to Los Angeles Opera’s revival of its Robert Wilson-directed “Madame Butterfly” this month might want to check out a new paperback for insights into the composer, his works and ...

Le Villi (The Willis or The Fairies) is an opera-ballet in two acts (originally one) composed by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Ferdinando Fontana, based on the short story Les Willis by ...

For the world premiere livestream of “Hershey Felder, Puccini,” TheatreWorks Silicon Valley has partnered with a company that knows a thing or two about staging operas by the famed composer. Opera San ...

A few weeks ago we did the best second-best symphonies. This week we’re going to do the best second-best operas. For the sake of argument, a composer’s second-best opera is any opera that isn’t his ...