The Gramophone list starts with Enrico Caruso and Claudia Muzio, as it should but then moves on to tenor Beniamino Gigli.

Three of the top 10 operas performed worldwide are by the emotionally volatile Italian composer Giacomo Puccini, who died a century ago. Henrietta Bredin explains how his colourful life influenced his ...

The Italian master composer is renowned for his melodramatic verismo operas. However, the Musica Viva concert focused on Puccini's minor works: songs, chamber music and arias from his early operas.

Sir Antonio Pappano, music director of the Royal Opera House, conducts a new production of Puccini's popular masterpiece, La boheme - a tale of friends and fellowship, love and loss, set in 19th ...

A gift from a board member recently paid for the company to rebuild sets for Franco Zeffirelli’s deathless 1981 production of Puccini’s classic. As opera houses rework Puccini’s classic ...

This guide presents a unique collection of critical, analytical, and documentary essays on Puccini's most popular opera. There are new studies on the background to Parisian bohemianism (by Jerrold ...

This August Opera Greenwich return, bringing their production of La Bohème to St Alfege Church, located in the heart of historic Greenwich to celebrate Puccini's centenary. Opera Greenwich is a ...

Atlas, Allan W. 1990. Crossed Stars and Crossed Tonal Areas in Puccini's Madama Butterfly". 19th-Century Music, Vol. 14, Issue. 2, p. 186. Sylvester, Jane 2022 ...

It is the first year since Italian opera garnered the mark of UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage. But it is also the 100th anniversary from the ...

Progetto Puccini Presscon; Oliver Salonga-Pianist, Roby Malubay-Bass Baritone. Photo: Cultural Center of the Philippines Stepping into a grand hall where the echoes of classic opera blend with the ...