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 ...

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 ...

Puccini’s “Il Trittico,” staged over the next two weekends by OperaDelaware, is a rarity in the repertoire: a series of three one-act operas with nary a connection to one another save for the composer ...

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 ...

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 ...

MILAN — The last time Puccini’s original version of “Madama Butterfly” was performed at the Teatro alla Scala here, it was over a century ago and it was a fiasco. The opera’s 1904 premiere was met ...

“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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...