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 ...

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.

A vast archive of letters sent by relatives of soldiers missing in World War One seeking the help of Spain's King Alfonso ...

The Roman-born performer made her big stage debut at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples in Giacomo Puccini’s “Bohème” in 1900. She went on to interpret opera’s most famous female protagonists ...

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Puccini's Tosca from the Metropolitan Opera, New York with Lise Davidsen as Tosca and Freddie De Tommaso as Cavaradossi. Show more Puccini's Tosca from the Metropolitan Opera, New York. Puccini ...

More than any other, I love the music of Giacomo Puccini, a composer capable of reaching the heart of his listener, touching emotionally with an unprecedented power. "As a singer, I am fond of ...

The performance will consist of a full-scale traditional Italian-style production of Giacomo Puccini's "Madama Butterfly" with chorus, international soloists and orchestra. Tickets are $12 for ...

Twenty-three of the works in this exhibition were pulled from the Guggenheim’s collection and many, including Robert Delaunay’s Eiffel Tower (Tour Eiffel)(1911, inscribed 1910).

The future of “Madama Butterfly” at the Canadian Opera Company is — pun not intended — up in the air. Joshua Chong is a Toronto-based arts critic and culture reporter for the Star ...

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However, Papi argues that Callas was, in reality, of a more “docile nature and in need of love”. Much like the heroine of Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca, whose famous aria captures the essence of Callas’s ...