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Is there any more tuneful “star turn” in opera than Cio-Cio-San’s entrance in Giacomo Puccini’s Madame Butterfly? Besotted with American naval officer Pinkerton, on shore leave in Nagasaki, the young ...

When the New Orleans Opera opens its 2024-25 season this weekend, its lead-off production of Giacomo Puccini’s “Tosca” will evoke fond memories for two of its principal singers. Soprano Melody Moore ...

The Royal Choral Society presents Puccini at the Palace at London’s Alexandra Palace – an unforgettable night of romance, ...

Seattle Opera will close its 2024/25 season with Giacomo Puccini’s shocking melodrama Tosca, the fiery tale of an opera diva who risks everything to save her beloved from the grasp of a sadistic and ...

NEW YORK — I’ve never been much of a fan of Franco Zeffirelli’s production of Puccini’s “La Bohème,” with its realistic sets and dowdy charm. But I developed an unexpected fondness for it on Tuesday, ...

Phil Chan believes “Madama Butterfly” should be celebrated as a masterpiece. Chan also believes the 120-year-old Puccini opera should be reclaimed and reinvented by Asian and Asian-American artists.

Asmik Grigorian laughs when she recalls that she had been singing professionally for more than a decade when the International Opera Awards proclaimed her the "best young female singer" of 2016. "So ...

Opera Colorado is deep in rehearsals for it's production of La bohème, the iconic opera written by Giacomo Puccini in 1895. It's the story of four young friends living the bohemian lifestyle in Paris.

This Orientalist classic, left unfinished, has had to be completed since Puccini’s death. A new version hands that task to artists with Asian roots. By Kevin Ng The company’s director, Oliver Mears, ...

Two classic operas, a world premiere and a concert presentation of one of Puccini’s early works make up the newly announced Minnesota Opera 2025-2026 season. “We’re all telling stories about ourselves ...