Comparisons are often drawn between Puccini and Johann Sebastian Bach. Like the great German composer, the Italian opera ...

and an Italian in Italy can never be foreign ... trouble loomed for the composer. Shortly after his next opera, I Lombardi, premiered in 1843, Verdi had his first clash with censorship.

Rigoletto has undergone radical transformations in the past, including the English National Opera’s mafioso-style version in ...

Following the success of Manon Lescaut (1893) Giacomo Puccini soon takes over from Verdi as Italy's leading opera composer with a string of major works that continue to sell out opera houses today ...

Early operas tell the story of Greek drama and were sung in Italian. Italian dominated the musical form until the 18th Century. By this time composers across Europe, such as Henry Purcell ...

Chopin is also among the outstanding composer-performers from this time. In the world of opera, cue the entrance of Verdi in the middle of the Romantic era. He turned Italian opera on its head by ...

featuring great Italian opera composers such as Pucccini, Rossini, Verdi and more. According to this year's Event Chair Carol Markley, "Pasta & Puccini has always been a fun, affordable event for ...