“Short” is not a word you see modifying “opera” very often, but when it comes to Gianni Schicchi and Suor Angelica, the two one-acts by Giacomo Puccini that Opera Santa Barbara will present at the ...

La fanciulla del West: An opera seen through a haze of cowboy stereotypes - 3/5 Puccini’s work set in the Gold Rush of ...

When it comes to name recognition in Italian opera, Giacomo Puccini usually comes in second place to the slightly more famed Giuseppe Verdi. If there were a ranking for the most spectacularly groomed ...

Italy's Arena di Verona Opera Festival will present six classic opera productions, ballet, and multimedia concerts in its ...

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 ...

After presenting drive-in and smaller productions over the past two seasons, San Diego Opera plans to come back in a big way for its 2022-23 season. The upcoming season, which goes on sale today, will ...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. ArtHaus has put together an interesting set for lovers of the Puccini operas and calls it "Tutto Puccini." Actually, it is not quite "tutto," since ...

Madama Butterfly is an opera in three acts (originally two) by Giacomo Puccini (December 22, 1858 – November 29, 1924). Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica, Puccini’s librettists for Madama Butterfly, ...

The current production of Verdi’s Nabucco is the Lyric's last Verdi until at least the fall of 2017. Photo: Andrew Cioffi There was a time, now spoken of only with a haze of a distant memory hovering ...

What should opera look like in a world marked by rapid industrial and technological development? Though such questions certainly resonate in the 21st century, opera composers were asking the same ...

Puccini’s La fanciulla del West is set in Gold Rush California in the 1840s. When it premiered in 1910, the setting ...