Stefano Vignati, Music Director and Principal Conductor of Opera Carolina, has been selected to conduct the opening of the ...

With operas such as 'Tosca,' 'Madama Butterfly' and 'La Boheme,' Giacomo Puccini still dominates the repertoire of opera houses around the world 100 years after his death. The world of opera was ...

The Republican National Convention climaxed last week with its presidential nominee’s name spelled out in fireworks over the National Mall. The first family was then serenaded by a pop operatic tenor ...

NEW YORK — He visited Little Italy and Chinatown, posed for pictures on the Brooklyn Bridge, marveled at the tall buildings and took in shows. He played cards in the backroom of an Italian restaurant ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by The history and curiosity behind these operas, both set in Asia, complicate often simplistic criticisms of borrowing and stereotyping. By Zachary ...

Intellectual condescension toward Giacomo Puccini, which still persists, started during his lifetime, when his operas played the world’s houses and made him wealthy. How wealthy? When Puccini died at ...

Giacomo Puccini was never shy when it came to writing operas with exotic settings — or at least settings that seemed exotic to European audiences. Still, Puccini may have outdone himself with La ...

Talk Like An Opera Geek attempts to decode the intriguing and intimidating lexicon of the opera house. After the death in 1848 of Gaetano Donizetti (a virtual composing machine who cranked out over 60 ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter The costume of Minnie, the Girl of the Golden West, hangs in the shadows halfway up the back stairs of Giacomo Puccini's house in ...