Portland State University Opera will present “Suor Angelica” and “Gianni Schicchi,” two one-act operas by the Italian composer Giacomo Puccini with libretto by Giovacchino Forzano. A study in ...

Palm Beach Opera's free 'Curtain Warmers,' presented an hour prior to start time, offers insights into the production's ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Critic’s Notebook A century after his death, the composer of “La Bohème,” “Tosca” and “Madama Butterfly” still dominates the repertoire like no one since. Credit... Supported by ...

Coming off of her recent sold-out concert at the BroadStage, soprano Golda Zahra returns to Walt Disney Concert Hall for Pacific Music Festival’s gala “Opera Forever!” Marking 100 years since the ...

After seven years of loneliness and shame in an Italian convent, a young nun receives heartbreaking news from her callous aunt. What follows is the tragedy of “Suor Angelica,” Giacomo Puccini’s ...

When Mary Jane Phillips-Matz published her one-volume biography of Giuseppe Verdi in 1993, it stood several inches thick. It was a major scholarly achievement. Now she is back with a much slenderer ...

In a 10-year burst of creativity, Giacomo Puccini turned out “Manon Lescaut,” “La Bohème,” “Tosca” and “Madama Butterfly”( Pictorial Press Ltd/Alamy Stock Photo). This essay is a Cover Story selection ...

Princess Turandot, the namesake of Puccini's final opera, "Turandot," was easy to please when it came to men. Answer her three riddles correctly and you had her heart. Get them wrong and she had your ...

The Kennedy Center premieres a new ending for one of the world's most famous operas on Saturday in Washington, D.C. The opera is Turandot, and its ending has always been, shall we say, problematic.