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 ...

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 ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Puccini's 'Madame Butterfly' takes flight at the Academy of Music. "In the original production it's a Japanese girl," says Karen Chia-ling Ho, who plays Cio Cio San, the ...

“Almighty God touched me with His little finger,” wrote Giacomo Puccini, “and said: ‘Write for the theater . . .’ I have obeyed the supreme command.” He obeyed so successfully that he became one of ...

Imagine that a new work by Giacomo Puccini had been discovered. Opera houses the world over would fight for the rights to the first performance. The best singers would scramble to create the roles.

Most people with even a hint of knowledge about opera, know Giacomo Puccini wrote the music to his masterpieces La Boheme, Madame Butterfly and Tosca. As for his collection of three one-act operas ...

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 ...

Christine Goerke as Princess Turandot and (Limmie Pulliam as Calàf in Turandot at Moores School of Music. Credit: Photo by Rafael Lopez Every time Giacomo Puccini’s final masterpiece Turandot (1926) ...

The Feb. 28 staging starring Limmie Pulliam, Latonia Moore and Detroiter Christine Goerke will launch Music Hall’s new ...

Once Puccini's career as an opera composer bloomed, he had very little time to write purely instrumental music, which he regretted toward the end of his life. We'll hear the early melodies he later re ...

The Symphony Chorus of New Orleans presents "music for the masses" in more than one sense this weekend, with a program of music written for religious services that's also likely to appeal to plenty of ...