Puccini News

It's the decadence and grandeur of the opera that makes you want to leap on stage and really belt one out.

Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra Principal Conductor Fabio Mechetti looks over the score of "La Boheme" during a rehearsal on Feb.

Art of Time Ensemble, under the artistic direction of Andrew Burashko, will present Cantabile: An Evening of Italian Music, a special concert featuring the music of Italy from powerful and familiar opera arias by Verdi, Leoncavallo and Puccini to popular songs by Lucio Battisti, Paolo Conte and others.

Verdi, Mozart, Wagner, Rossini and a double dose of Puccini -- this is LA Opera's new season, announced Thursday at the Los Angeles Music Center's Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.

Washington National Opera will present famed Romanian soprano Angela Gheorghiu in concert on Saturday, March 3 at 7 p.m. in the Kennedy Center Opera House.

Madame Butterfly fully deserves its reputation as the most beautiful opera about love.

Both perform in the acclaimed Art of Time Ensemble's Cantabile: An Evening of Italian Music under the direction of Artistic Director Andrew Burashko, a special concert featuring the music of Italy from powerful and familiar opera arias by Verdi, Leoncavallo and Puccini to popular songs by Lucio Battisti, Paolo Conte and others.

First discovered in 2009 on the television reality show "America's Got Talent," the Texas Tenors now enjoy international acclaim as powerful entertainers who weave effortlessly from John Denver to Puccini, to Merle Haggard and Leonard Bernstein.

I do not like thee, Dr. Fell. The reasons why I cannot tell. But this I know and know full well: I do not like thee, Dr.

Madame Butterfly fully deserves its reputation as the most beautiful opera about love.

Music director Michalis Economou will conduct the Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra in 15 Greatest Hits of Classical Music at Katara Cultural Village Opera House today and tomorrow , at 7.30pm. The Philharmonics audience selected the pieces to be heard through surveys conducted at Opera House performances as well as on the Web.

By Joan C. McKinney Campbellsville University to hold orchestra concert Feb. 14, 2012 CAMPBELLSVILLE, KY - The Campbellsville University Orchestra,under the direction of Dr.

Unless you are on a binge in one of the world's great opera cities, seeing one opera per week might seem quite a reasonable tally for most fans.

Art of Time Ensemble, under the artistic direction of Andrew Burashko, presents Cantabile: An Evening of Italian Music, a special concert featuring the music of Italy from powerful and familiar opera arias by Verdi, Leoncavallo and Puccini to popular songs by Lucio Battisti, Paolo Conte and others.

The scene is one of the most unforgettable in all of opera: Renowned opera diva Floria Tosca prostrates herself in front of the baron Scarpia to beg for her lover's life.

"La Boheme" will be presented by Teatro Lirico D'Europa at 7:30 tonight at the F.M. Kirby Center, 71 Public Square, Wilkes-Barre. The opera by Giacomo Puccini first debuted in Turin, Italy, in 1896.

Art of Time Ensemble, under the artistic direction of Andrew Burashko, will present Cantabile: An Evening of Italian Music, a special concert featuring the music of Italy from powerful and familiar opera arias by Verdi, Leoncavallo and Puccini to popular songs by Lucio Battisti, Paolo Conte and others.

Compared to legendary soprano Maria Callas by Opera New s and hailed as a "bountiful, focused and alluring bright soprano" by the Frankfurter Neue Presse , Elaine Alvarez joins the musical energy of the NWSA Symphony Orchestra to present her alma mater's annual symphony concert.

Kaija Saariaho's L'Amour de Loin has had eight different productions since it was new in 2000, including the one opening at Toronto's Four Seasons Centre on Thursday.

Teppei Kono performs the role of Bonze in Puccini's opera "Madame Butterfly" at Music By The Lake, Lake Geneva, Wisc., in 2010.