Giacomo Puccini News

"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.

Opera fans who travel across country to see some of the biggest productions live on the stage of the famed Metropolitan Opera in New York City now can see the same productions close to home.

Langley's Cole Armour has put together an impressive resumA© in his four years of singing, appearing at everything from the B.C. Country Music Awards to the PrAat-A-Pour High Tea and winning this year's Red Robinson Showdown talent competition at the PNE.

The opera superstar has selected a delightful program that includes arias by Richard Wagner and Giacomo Puccini and songs by Amy Beach, Ottorino Respighi, Richard Strauss, Benjamin Moore, and Leonard Bernstein .