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

La fanciulla del West, Puccini’s operatic version of David Belasco’s play The Girl of the Golden West, was a huge hit at its ...

Evans’s credible production roots the action in time and place. Amanda Echalaz is a richly drawn and touching Minnie and conductor Matthew Kofi Waldren adds colour and drama ...

MOBILE, Alabama—Opera composer Giacomo Puccini was a talented, tall, dark and handsome Italian man with a flair for fashion. The ladies loved him. His fans adored him. But under that smart top-hat was ...

Italian composer Giacomo Puccini was the pop star of his era. Even 100 years after his death, his operas like 'Tosca,' 'Madama Butterfly' and 'La Boheme' remain staple repertoire — and politically ...

SARASOTA -- To prepare for the season-opening production of Giacomo Puccini's "Tosca," Sarasota Opera Artistic Director Victor DeRenzi started at the beginning. He bought a new copy of the score and ...

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 ...

With ambition that exceeded its grasp, the orchestra performed Puccini’s “Il Trittico” ahead of the center’s expected closure. By Oussama Zahr This Orientalist classic, left unfinished, has had to be ...

Giacomo Puccini is a hit machine in the world of grand opera: “Madama Butterfly,” “Tosca” and La Boheme” are among the most produced and popular operas on the planet. But his first success was “Manon ...