“Short” is not a word you see modifying “opera” very often, but when it comes to Gianni Schicchi and Suor Angelica, the two one-acts by Giacomo Puccini that Opera Santa Barbara will present at 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 ...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. ArtHaus has put together an interesting set for lovers of the Puccini operas and calls it "Tutto Puccini." Actually, it is not quite "tutto," since ...

The current production of Verdi’s Nabucco is the Lyric's last Verdi until at least the fall of 2017. Photo: Andrew Cioffi There was a time, now spoken of only with a haze of a distant memory hovering ...

What should opera look like in a world marked by rapid industrial and technological development? Though such questions certainly resonate in the 21st century, opera composers were asking the same ...

On 25 April 1926, the premiere of Puccini’s posthumous opera was presented at Milan’s Teatro alla Scala, almost a year and a half after his death ...

As companies around the globe celebrate the centennial of Giacomo Puccini’s death in 2024, Chicago Opera Theater (COT), Chicago’s foremost producer of new and rarely produced operas, presents Bohème ...

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 ...

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 ...