An April 24 performance of Puccini’s "Turandot" – one that featured vast choral and orchestral forces and first-rate soloists playing to an enthusiastic and sold-out house – demonstrated the vitality ...

Caitlin Gotimer’s Tosca goes from 0-60 in mere moments while the London Philharmonic unlock the barely contained violence in Ted Huffman’s long-awaited exceptional staging ...

The Metropolitan Opera’s 2025-26 season of Saturday matinee broadcasts continues at 1 p.m. with a performance of “Turandot,” Puccini’s fairy tale of ancient China.

Puccini reinvented grand opera on an intimate, human scale, painting the lives of everyday men and women through music of exquisite and timeless beauty, with arias that speak directly to the heart.

Italian composer Giacomo Puccini was the pop star of his era. Even 100 years after his death, his operas like 'Tosca,' 'Madama Butterfly' and 'La Boheme' remain staple repertoire — and politically ...

Puccini’s original score was ‘finished’ by Franco Alfano, whose additions are heard uncut on this dramatic all-star recording Antonio Pappano has never yet conducted Turandot in the theatre – and that ...

Intellectual condescension toward Giacomo Puccini, which still persists, started during his lifetime, when his operas played the world’s houses and made him wealthy. How wealthy? When Puccini died at ...

Giacomo Puccini was never shy when it came to writing operas with exotic settings — or at least settings that seemed exotic to European audiences. Still, Puccini may have outdone himself with La ...

This summer, festivals across the world will resound to the music of the "Nessun Dorma" man. Giacomo Puccini was Europe's last great popular opera composer. Though some of the sniffier houses still ...