Puccini News

"Serenata" is the title of the forthcoming event at Sagrestia Vault, at the Valletta Waterfront.

Thanks to EMMA and Jack Page Projects, Webster Elementary students learned about opera, classical music and the history of the trumpet during an assembly performance at the school.

Leap to Morristown this weekend to catch the premier of the New Jersey Ballet's 15th season at the Community Theatre at Mayo Center for the Performing Arts.

Opera Tampa Across the Bay performs Thursday, Nov. 5, 7:30 p.m., at the Tarpon Springs Performing Arts Center, 324 Pine St.

But best-known doesn't always mean best-loved. Fans praise the famously repetitive composer for reuniting serious music with young audiences.

It would be easy to dwell on the shortcomings of the Teatro Lirico d'Europa's touring production of Puccini's "La Boheme,'' which opened for a short run at the Cutler Majestic Theatre on Friday.

It's late Tuesday morning and David Grabarkewitz is taking some of the cast of "La Vie de La Boh?me" through their paces in a borrowed apartment above Angelus Cleaners on North Mesa.

IAMANDA ROOCROFT fans may have been disappointed not to hear her perform as one of opera's best loved tragic heroines this weekend, but the WNO will have surely created a new army of Butterfly collectors in those who went to see this elegant adaptation of the Puccini classic at the Empire.

The Washington Chorus opens their 49th season Sunday, November 8th with "The Essential Puccini," a program of best-loved choruses and arias by the Italian master.

Antony Hegarty of Antony and the Johnsons can imitate a warbling opera star almost as well as he can dress like a goth girl .

Marty Sohl Metropolitan Opera: Act II, Scene 2 of Verdi s Aida at the Metropolitan Opera.

The spotlight is on Dallas as it opens its $354 million performing arts center, unveiling a new opera house and theater designed by architectural stars with the idea of making the arts more accessible.

The Degas Quartet returns to Wilmington Sunday to join fellow musicians for a program of song - songlike at the very least - for Chamber Music Wilmington.

First seen in 2007, the Royal Opera 's comic double bill of Ravel and Puccini returns for its first revival, and, with Elaine Kidd overseeing Richard Jones's productions, their dark-tinged humour seems more or less intact.

A POPULAR myth is that Puccini was killed by the stress of working on his final, unfinished opera.

Date : Fri, 16 Oct 2009 10:21:48 +0500 VERDI CHORUS TO PRESENT FALL CONCERT NOVEMBER 21/22 Jenine Baines California Chronicle 15 October 2009 15:27:58 When most people think of going to the opera, there's a good chance they'll think of productions by Giuseppe Verdi, Giacomo Puccini or Georges Bizet.

In honor of her birthday , TCM is running a number of Lillian Gish's movies today.

COMPOSER Giacomo Puccini died in 1924, leaving his opera Turandot unfinished. After much squabbling between factions, a final version was put together and performed at La Scala, Milan, in 1926, with the great Arturo Toscanini conducting.

Broadway Across America is offering a special advance purchase opportunity for a limited time through October 15 for fans of the show who plan to attend the Milwaukee engagement, November 24-29, 2009 at the Marcus Center for Performing Arts.

The ghost of "Tosca" lingers on. The Metropolitan Opera's new and loudly booed production of the Puccini staple dominated a panel discussion at the New York Public Library Thursday night that featured the Met's general manager, Peter Gelb, and three directors of productions being presented this season: Luc Bondy , Patrice Chereau and Bartlett Sher ...