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 ...

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When it comes to name recognition in Italian opera, Giacomo Puccini usually comes in second place to the slightly more famed Giuseppe Verdi. If there were a ranking for the most spectacularly ...

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But “Tosca” (1900), Giacomo Puccini’s heady brew of romance and politics, surely deserves a prize for bringing together all of the archetypal characters and tragic tropes into one work.

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He’s a Jamaican American who regularly wrestles a demon that plays dirty; she’s a Bay Area refugee going through a bad break-up with the long-deceased opera composer Giacomo Puccini.