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This year marks composer Giacomo Puccini's 150th birthday. In honor of the event, Opera Tampa will perform one of the composer's popular operas, La Boheme. The work is what inspired today's popular ...
Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y. Having studied, performed and written about the composer Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) since my student days, I find it surprising to see him described on the Bard Music ...
Enter Your Email to Unlock This Article Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Turandot (1926), the final work of ...
In a 10-year burst of creativity, Giacomo Puccini turned out “Manon Lescaut,” “La Bohème,” “Tosca” and “Madama Butterfly”( Pictorial Press Ltd/Alamy Stock Photo). This essay is a Cover Story selection ...
Symphony San Jose will have crowds going gaga for Giacomo Puccini on Saturday and Sunday as it pays tribute to the legendary Italian composer on the 100th anniversary of his death. The show, ...
This lecture series performance paying tribute to famed opera composer Giacomo Puccini features singer John Lariviere, John is a 2020 Broadway World Award Nominee For Top Vocalist of the Decade For ...
SUNSET PARK — Brooklyn-based Regina Opera Company recently opened its 2024-2025 season with a two-hour “All-Puccini Concert” commemorating the 100th anniversary of Italian composer Giacomo Puccini’s ...
Chinese composer Hao Weiya was asked to write a new ending for Turandot while studying opera in Italy. "It's my destiny, my fate," he says. For 84 years, opera buffs have puzzled over how the Italian ...
MOBILE, Alabama — Next season Mobile Opera will officially enter the Puccini Decade. The company’s 10-year “Puccini Project” begins in spring 2013 with “La Fanciulla del West” (“Girl of the Golden ...
'Madama Butterfly' featured on iconic Filippo Berio extra virgin olive oil tin; celebration includes sponsorship of Florida Grand Opera's 82nd annual gala LYNDHURST, N.J., March 6, 2024 /PRNewswire/ - ...
Simonetta Puccini, who went to court to prove that she was a descendant of the composer Giacomo Puccini and, after she won that case, worked to further Puccini’s legacy, died on Dec. 16 in Milan. She ...