I spoke with Felder earlier this week from his home in Florence while he was in the midst of making final tweaks to the show. He is super fascinating and just plain fun to talk to. His knowledge of, ...

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 ...

SARASOTA -- To prepare for the season-opening production of Giacomo Puccini's "Tosca," Sarasota Opera Artistic Director Victor DeRenzi started at the beginning. He bought a new copy of the score and ...

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 ...

London marked the 2026 World Cup kick-off with SeokJong Baek and the Royal Opera Chorus performing Puccini’s ‘Nessun dorma’ ...

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 ...

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 ...

La bohème is an opera in four acts, composed by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, based on Scènes de la vie de bohème by Henri Murger. The world premiere ...

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 ...

New York Times subscribers* enjoy full access to TimesMachine—view over 150 years of New York Times journalism, as it originally appeared. PUCCINI His Life and Works. By Julian Budden. Illustrated.

The performances feature Romanian baritone Florin Estefan, Israeli soprano Yasmine Levi-Ellentuck, and Italian tenor Ivan Defabiani. Il Tabarro is a short, dark, and deeply moving opera depicting the ...