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 ...

Based on the novel “Scenes de la vie de Bohème” by Henri Murger, “La Bohème” made its operatic debut in 1896. The show is set in 19th century Paris and follows the lives of young bohemian artists as ...

The Kennedy Center premieres a new ending for one of the world's most famous operas on Saturday in Washington, D.C. The opera is Turandot, and its ending has always been, shall we say, problematic.

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Opera Philadelphia will transport audiences to 19th-century Paris with Puccini's La bohme. "But it's a La bohme like you've never seen it before," says Frank Luzi, Vice ...

The production marks another milestone for the company and for the final season of artistic director Patrick Summers.

For the first time ever, Houston Grand Opera has mounted a full presentation of Puccini's trio of one-act operas.

La fanciulla del West is the only one of Giacomo Puccini’s operas built on an American subject, and viewers from the outset have been naturally inclined to consider how successfully it conveys an ...

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 ...

Le Villi (The Willis or The Fairies) is an opera-ballet in two acts (originally one) composed by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Ferdinando Fontana, based on the short story Les Willis by ...

Kentucky Opera brings rarely performed Puccini work to Louisville. The films of Italian director Sergio Leone influenced the design of this opera production. "It sounds so much like those big John ...

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 ...