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

While the average person may not be able to name any of the operas written by the Italian composer and librettist Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924), they’ve likely at least heard the titles of his most ...

EXCLUSIVE: Italian production and distribution stalwart Lucky Red is teaming with local pubcaster Rai on drama series Belcanto, about the roots of opera in Italy. The ambitious drama is set to star ...

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 ...

The Metropolitan Opera is on a run of Turandot, the opera by Puccini—his last. In fact, he was unable to complete it, before dying in November 1924. The most common “completion” of the opera is that ...

This Saturday, you can see it free on the Nationals Park jumbotron during the 19th annual “Opera in the Outfield.” “It’s an annual tradition for us,” General Director Timothy O’Leary told WTOP. “It’s ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Opera Philadelphia will transport audiences to 19th-century Paris with Puccini's La bohme. "But it's a La bohme like you've never seen it before," says Frank Luzi, Vice ...

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 ...

SUNSET PARK — Brooklyn-based Regina Opera Company recently opened its 2024-2025 season with a two-hour “All-Puccini Concert” commemorating the 100th anniversary of Italian composer Giacomo Puccini’s ...

Symphony San Jose will have crowds going gaga for Giacomo Puccini on Saturday and Sunday as it pays tribute to the legendary Italian composer on the 100th anniversary of his death. The show, ...

Tosca is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on January 14, 1900. The work, based on ...

Five years elapsed from his first plans to the premiere of Il trittico in 1918. But with this three-part evening for Italian ...