Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This image released by the Washington National Opera shows a set rendering by Wilson Chin showing one of his designs for a new ...

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 ...

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 ...

MOBILE, Alabama—Opera composer Giacomo Puccini was a talented, tall, dark and handsome Italian man with a flair for fashion. The ladies loved him. His fans adored him. But under that smart top-hat was ...

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 ...

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 poet, has ...

They’re striking a chord with the woke crowd. New York City’s famed Metropolitan Opera added a website trigger warning for prospective ticket buyers to Giacomo Puccini’s “Turandot,” informing ...

The Royal Opera House’s restaging of La Bohème will get the same responses as any other production of the Puccini opera. The savvy enthusiast hedges cautiously, perhaps going with the sceptic’s ...

This image released by the Washington National Opera shows a set rendering by Wilson Chin showing one of his designs for a new production of Giacomo Puccini's "Turandot" opening May 11 at the ...