Puccini News

An aria from the opera "Turandot" was only fitting to open the festivities Saturday at the 75th anniversary celebration of the Ligure Club, one of Oakland's original Italian associations.

A GALA evening of seasonal songs to celebrate Christmas and the New Year as well as opera and classical arias will be on offer when soprano Lesley Garrett performs at Llandudno next month.

Soprano Renee Fleming makes her Festival del Sole debut on a recital double bill with Leif Ove Andsnes at Calistoga's Castello di Amorosa.

RenA©e Fleming has been described as "the Great American Soprano" and "the people's diva," heavy monikers.

LIFE is what happens while we are making other plans. Growing up in blue-collar Bedford, N.H., Patricia Racette sang jazz and played guitar, and when someone asked her to join the choir, her answer was "No, I sing alone." Then she joined anyway, as a second alto.

A'Some people have good instinct and patience. Others have their eyes and ears open.

Performer Renzo Zulian and stage director Dean Anthony go over a scene for a oeToscaa in the new Riverwest rehearsal space for the Florentine Opera Company.

Freddie Kruger may patrol Elm Street while Jason the deadless hockey-head wanders around looking for his next axe cushion on Friday night , but at the Lyric Opera San Diego in North Park they bake a baritone witch into a giant yummy gingerbread cake instead.

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.

Exciting return for N.Y.C. Opera and 'Esther' By David A. Rosenberg Hour Theater Critic As the orchestra tuned up before the start of New York City Opera's production of "Esther" at the newly renovated Koch Theater, my companion turned to me and said, "I hope that's not what the opera will sound like." His trepidation was understandable since Hugo ...

"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 .