Production maximizes power of Puccini's music and drama — filling out characters, heightening emotions, enhancing humor and ...

The work has become a classic thanks to its touching story about the transience of love and life lived at the margins of society.

Arizona Opera has announced its 2025/26 Main Stage Season, in addition to the presentation of mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton in ...

Director Melanie Bacaling’s staging certainly has its heart more in April than March, especially given the presence of a ...

Two classic operas, a world premiere and a concert presentation of one of Puccini’s early works make up the newly announced ...

It includes performances from the New Works Initiative and Puccini's 'Edgar,' which hasn't been performed in the U.S. in ...

With operas such as 'Tosca,' 'Madama Butterfly' and 'La Boheme,' Giacomo Puccini still dominates the repertoire of opera houses around the world 100 years after his death. The world of opera was ...

In 2013 the Strand Theatre brought Charles Burnett, an acclaimed director who was born in Vicksburg, home for a weekend of ...

If you haven’t been to an opera in a while, or ever, by all means get yourself to the Dallas Opera’s La bohème. Stirring both visually and aurally, Friday night’s sold-out opening at the Winspear ...

On the anniversary of the premiere on April 25, 1926, John Steane looks at the recordings of Puccini's last opera... Read more The fifth of seven children, he was christened Giacomo Antonio Domenico ...

Among the most goose-bump-inducing moments in opera is Mimì’s entrance in the duet that concludes the first act of Giacomo Puccini’s 1896 opera “La Bohème.” Rodolfo (tenor), a struggling ...

“Edgar” (April 17 and 19, 2026): Giacomo Puccini’s second opera tells the story of a man torn between the promise of virtue and the allure of vice, where love and desire collide with ...