When the curtain rises Saturday evening on Los Angeles Opera’s “Turandot,” composer Giacomo Puccini’s last work will feature the L.A. debut of the production’s biggest star: monumental stage sets ...

Verdi, on the other hand — his beard was an ungroomed mess.

Giacomo Puccini was a musical genius and gave the world some of the ... with complex female characters taking the lead in many of the Italian composer’s works.

Giacomo Puccini then went on to study and work under several other renowned composers in other parts of Italy. Puccini’s first opera was Le Villi, composed when he was 25 years old. He’s more ...

On Jan. 31, the Knoxville Opera put on the first of two performances of “La Bohème,” a timeless Italian libretto set in ...

According to those that count such things, Giacomo Puccini’s La Boheme is perennially in the top five of the “most produced” ...

On Friday and Sunday, they will present performances of “La Bohème,” the classic opera by Giacomo Puccini about poor artists in Paris in the 1830s. It is a tale of love and heartbreak ...

On the anniversary of the premiere on April 25, 1926, John Steane looks at the recordings of Puccini's last opera... Read more The fifth of seven children, he was christened Giacomo Antonio Domenico ...