Puccini reinvented grand opera on an intimate, human scale, painting the lives of everyday men and women through music of exquisite and timeless beauty, with arias that speak directly to the heart.

Just as Butterfly is trapped with little agency in this opera, we as Asian Americans have been trapped by many of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. English National Opera’s 2020 production of Giacomo Puccini’s Madam Butterfly - Corbis Entertainment Among all the composers whose ...

Intellectual condescension toward Giacomo Puccini, which still persists, started during his lifetime, when his operas played the world’s houses and made him wealthy. How wealthy? When Puccini died at ...

Soprano Lise Davidsen will sing her first Tosca at the Metropolitan Opera, opposite tenor Freddie De Tommaso, who will make his Met debut, as David McVicar’s production of Puccini’s Tosca returns for ...

Giacomo Puccini was never shy when it came to writing operas with exotic settings — or at least settings that seemed exotic to European audiences. Still, Puccini may have outdone himself with La ...

Puccini’s original score was ‘finished’ by Franco Alfano, whose additions are heard uncut on this dramatic all-star recording Antonio Pappano has never yet conducted Turandot in the theatre – and that ...

The November production of "Tosca" will launch a season-long exploration of the topic of faith by Detroit Opera.

NEW YORK — He visited Little Italy and Chinatown, posed for pictures on the Brooklyn Bridge, marveled at the tall buildings and took in shows. He played cards in the backroom of an Italian restaurant ...

What exactly the film wants to achieve is hard to pinpoint. Offering no analysis of Puccini's music, his presumed genius or even his person, adding to the formalistic mix is a narrative structure ...