In a 10-year burst of creativity, Giacomo Puccini turned out “Manon Lescaut,” “La Bohème,” “Tosca” and “Madama Butterfly”( Pictorial Press Ltd/Alamy Stock Photo). This essay is a Cover Story selection ...

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 ...

Opera Orlando announced single tickets are now on sale for its new production of MADAME BUTTERFLY, coming to Steinmetz Hall.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. PUCCINI is on the way to Jerusalem. (photo credit: Lev Algredit) Two operas will be featured in performances at the Jerusalem ...

Opera critics consider Giacomo Puccini’s “Tosca,” which is now playing at the San Francisco Opera, to be the epitome of the verismo style. When the opera premiered in 1900, many Italian composers were ...

The opera season kicks off in November with Puccini's "Tosca." ...

With ambition that exceeded its grasp, the orchestra performed Puccini’s “Il Trittico” ahead of the center’s expected closure. By Oussama Zahr This Orientalist classic, left unfinished, has had to be ...

A concert performance in an orchestral reduction of Puccini’s colossal final opera was stylishly led by conductor Naomi Woo with José de Eça’s Calaf heading a strong cast ...

When it comes to comparing opera and cinema, Christy Thomas says the widely accepted view is that when the movies came along, they took what they wanted from the world of opera, and then supplanted it ...

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 ...

Diva Tosca (Sonya Yoncheva) survives, but the opera ‘Tosca’ is DOA at the Met. Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera. Amid the metaphorical and and literal murk of this “gala” performance, one spark shone out ...