Three opera icons stepped onto the stage during Friday's opening ceremony. Each of them are more than 200 years old ...

Puccini’s “La bohème” may be the most beloved opera of all time, with the doomed romance of the impoverished seamstress and ...

The conductor’s orchestral suites explores the subtlety of Puccini’s scoring, and render Madama Butterfly and Tosca afresh The Covid pandemic may have kept Carlo Rizzi away from the podium, but they ...

Opera critics consider Giacomo Puccini’s “Tosca,” which is now playing at the San Francisco Opera, to be the epitome of the verismo style. When the opera premiered in 1900, many Italian composers were ...

Intellectual condescension toward Giacomo Puccini, which still persists, started during his lifetime, when his operas played the world’s houses and made him wealthy. How wealthy? When Puccini died at ...

Puccini set his one-act opera in the 17th century, but its tragic story has had many painfully real counterparts all too recently, says ENO’s Annilese Miskimmon Great operas have the ability to thrive ...

Sondra Radvanovsky: It's really been my therapist, opera has. It's been my way of dealing with all of my issues in life, not just the death of people close to me and illness, but also happy moments, ...

Giacomo Puccini was never shy when it came to writing operas with exotic settings — or at least settings that seemed exotic to European audiences. Still, Puccini may have outdone himself with La ...