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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

The Republican National Convention climaxed last week with its presidential nominee’s name spelled out in fireworks over the National Mall. The first family was then serenaded by a pop operatic tenor ...

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 ...

Giacomo Puccini was never shy when it came to writing operas with exotic settings — or at least settings that seemed exotic to European audiences. Still, Puccini may have outdone himself with La ...

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 ...

The Metropolitan Opera is on a run of Turandot, the opera by Puccini—his last. In fact, he was unable to complete it, before dying in November 1924. The most common “completion” of the opera is that ...