“Puccini’s music has always been a major part of Sarasota Opera repertoire, as it has been for many opera companies,” stated Artistic Director Victor DeRenzi. “His operas have made many people opera ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Much like the hopefuls who joined the Gold Rush, most of those in the Cleveland Orchestra’s upcoming production of Puccini’s “Girl of the Golden West” are new to their roles. Unlike ...

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 ...

The Metropolitan Opera’s 2025-26 season of live Saturday matinee radio broadcasts begins with Puccini’s La Bohème!

The University of Arizona Voice and Opera Theater is doing a pair of one-act, hour-long operas four days in a row, Giacomo Puccini’s “Suor Angelica” and “Gianni Schicchi.” “These two operas are not as ...

The world of opera was shaken on the morning of November 29, 1924. Giacomo Puccini, the most famous composer of his time, had died in Brussels as a result of surgery for throat cancer. Or rather, as a ...

Coming off of her recent sold-out concert at the BroadStage, soprano Golda Zahra returns to Walt Disney Concert Hall for Pacific Music Festival’s gala “Opera Forever!” Marking 100 years since the ...

One opera is good. Three are better. That's what audiences will experience when Houston Grand Opera presents the full trilogy of Giacomo Puccini's "Il Trittico," running Thursday through Nov. 14 at ...

Two operas will be featured in performances at the Jerusalem Theatre. Act II of Tosca stands as a self-contained, shattering drama, portraying the fateful confrontation between the singer Tosca and ...

Imagine that a new work by Giacomo Puccini had been discovered. Opera houses the world over would fight for the rights to the first performance. The best singers would scramble to create the roles.

The Symphony Chorus of New Orleans presents "music for the masses" in more than one sense this weekend, with a program of music written for religious services that's also likely to appeal to plenty of ...

“Almighty God touched me with His little finger,” wrote Giacomo Puccini, “and said: ‘Write for the theater . . .’ I have obeyed the supreme command.” He obeyed so successfully that he became one of ...