Among all the composers whose operas have continued to enthral audiences, Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) is unrivalled. That’s perhaps surprising, because he created some of his most successful works in ...

The Metropolitan Opera’s 2025-26 season of live Saturday matinee radio broadcasts begins with Puccini’s La Bohème!

A new edition of Puccini's score springs to life in a meticulously prepared Opera Rara concert performance at the Barbican.

granddaughter and a butler who never knew him are fighting over $7 million worth of property and copyrights left by the composer. The battle over the inheritance forced the court at Lucca in northern ...

The Metropolitan Opera Company’s Live in HD broadcast of Giacomo Puccini’s “Turandot” will be shown at the Whitefish Performing Arts Center at 10:55 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 12. Set in ancient China and ...

Twenty-four years ago, when Arturo Toscanini conducted the world premiere of Giacomo Puccini’s unfinished opera, Turandot, he abruptly stopped the show in the middle of the third act—at the point ...

Opera critics consider Giacomo Puccini’s “Tosca,” which is now playing at the San Francisco Opera, to be the epitome of the verismo style. When the opera premiered in 1900, many Italian composers were ...

Seattle Opera will close its 2024/25 season with Giacomo Puccini’s shocking melodrama Tosca, the fiery tale of an opera diva who risks everything to save her beloved from the grasp of a sadistic and ...

The Republican National Convention climaxed last week with its presidential nominee’s name spelled out in fireworks over the National Mall. The first family was then serenaded by a pop operatic tenor ...

The Metropolitan Opera’s 2025-26 season of Saturday matinee broadcasts begins on Dec. 6 with a live broadcast of Puccini’s “La Bohème,” one of the world’s most popular operas.