Giacomo Puccini News

In 1903, Enrico Caruso, the legendary Italian tenor, made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera House in Manhattan in "Rigoletto" by composer Giuseppi Verdi.

It's a provocative theme: desire for love, freedom, passion and life. Those yearnings are the central scenarios of four production presented by San Diego Opera for its season of 2010 beginning Jan.

"Il Trittico" at the Metropolitan Opera is almost an embarrassment of riches. This too rarely seen work by Giacomo Puccini is a triple threat comprising three separate operas with not only different settings and time periods, but stories that run the gamut from dark passion to lighthearted fraud.

"Il Trittico" Photo No. 1: Alessandro Corbelli has the title role in " Gianni Schicchi " a rare comic opera by Puccini.

Italian composer Giacomo Puccini was born on 22 December 1858 in Lucca, where he later became church organist and choirmaster.

Broadcast of December 12 12:30 P.M. Il Tabarro : Maria Guleghina as Giorgetta, Salvatore Licitra as Luigi, Stephanie Blythe as Frugola, Paul Plishka as Talpa A© Johan Elbers 2009 The 2009a '10 Metropolitan Opera broadcast season is sponsored by Toll Brothers, America's luxury home builder, with generous long-term support from The Annenberg ...

Today is Sunday, Nov. 29, the 333rd day of 2009. There are 32 days left in the year.

Today is Sunday, Nov. 29, the 333rd day of 2009. There are 32 days left in the year.

This December, the New National Theatre Tokyo will present Giacomo Puccini's opera "Tosca." Despite the passing of Wakasugi Hiroshi, the artistic director of NNTT, in July 2009, production has gone on and is set to be more lavish then ever.

Indianapolis Opera; Clowes Memorial Hall; Nov. 20 and 22. What is there about Giacomo Puccini's La Boheme that has made it the world's most popular opera? Certainly the struggle of bright, young, free-wheeling, impoverished artists rebelling against the ordered society of post-Napoleonic Paris - and in the process seeking self identification - ...

Pagliacci/Suor Angelica : By Ruggero Leoncavallo/Giacomo Puccini. Conducted by Andrew Bisantz.

Patricia Racette had just sung her moving final notes in "Suor Angelica" and fallen to the stage.

Eric Brown opened his e-mail Monday and gasped. The 28-year-old baritone was slated to compete in the Kentucky District Round of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions Saturday afternoon.

Puccini's 'Suor Angelica' is paired with selections from other classic works for a musical evening presented by the Rowan Opera Company on November 20 and 21, 2009 at 8 pm in Pfleeger Concert Hall.

While I was in New York last month for a journalism fellowship in classical music and opera, my group visited the Metropolitan Opera prior to a performance of "Der Rosenkavalier." We were introduced to the opera company's general manager, Peter Gelb, a man so busy he has handlers who tell him where he needs to be at any given time We also got to ...

Peterborough, NH - The Peterborough Players will host the third opera in the Metropolitan Opera's The Met: Live in HD series; Turandot, by Giacomo Puccini, on Saturday, November 14th.

Through Nov. 15 La Bohme is the rare opera that captures audiences over and over, regardless of repeat viewings .

A scene from Puccini's "Turandot," which will be broadcast at noon Saturday at Town Plaza Cinema as part of the "Met Live in HD" series.

SUSAN HAMPTON visits Boston for Puccini's 'La bohme' Friday night [30 October 2009] was dreary and cold in Boston but when Teatro Lirico d'Europa brought its production of Giacomo Puccini 's La bohme to Emmerson College's Cutler Majestic Theatre, the brilliance of the singing warmed the heart of every opera goer.

"The Met: Live in HD" series of live simulcasts of Metropolitan Opera productions to movie theaters nationwide continues with director Franco Zeffirelli's staging of Giacomo Puccini's "Turandot" at noon Saturday at the Hollywood 14 theaters, 6200 S.W. 6th.