Giacomo Puccini News

Indiana University Opera and Ballet Theater at the Jacobs School of Music has announced its fall 2011 live streaming schedule.

Auftakt der Matinee-Reihe 'Das Ensemble stellt sich vor': Zoryana Kushpler und Marian Talaba singen Arien, Duette und Lieder

Decca is proud to present Polish soprano Aleksandra Kurzak in her Decca debut recording: Gioia! Kurzak, supported by conductor Omer Meir Wellber and the Orquesta de la Comunitat Valenciana, performs arias by Rossini, Mozart, Donizetti, Strauss II, Puccini, Verdi, Bellini and Moniuszko. The album will be released on September 13th

The Lyric Opera of Kansas City opens its 54th season and its inaugural season at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts October 1 through 9 with a new production of Puccini's Turandot.

Decca is proud to present Polish soprano Aleksandra Kurzak in her Decca debut recording: Gioia! Kurzak, supported by conductor Omer Meir Wellber and the Orquesta de la Comunitat Valenciana, performs arias by Rossini, Mozart, Donizetti, Strauss II, Puccini, Verdi, Bellini and Moniuszko. The album will be released on September 13th

The Union Avenue Opera begins season seventeen with Giacomo Puccini's classic, and final work, TURANDOT (with libretto by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni), and it's an excellent production buoyed by several fine performances. The opera itself combines the exotic, the romantic, and the poignant in Puccini's dynamic score, and the orchestra, conducted by artistic director Scott Schoonover is in fine fettle with their achievements here. Although Puccini died with only about two-thirds of the material finished, it's certainly engaging from start to finish, and appears to be a fully realized piece.

We're a collective of Toronto artists - actors, opera singers, musicians, painters, writers - with a thing for performing in small friendly spaces.

We're a collective of Toronto artists - actors, opera singers, musicians, painters, writers - with a thing for performing in small friendly spaces.

We're a collective of Toronto artists - actors, opera singers, musicians, painters, writers - with a thing for performing in small friendly spaces.

Atlanta Lyric Theatre, the metro area's only local professional musical theatre company, presents Jonathan Larson's hit musical, RENT, June 10 through 26 at the historic Strand Theatre in Marietta.

On Sunday, May 15 at 1 p.m. the Garibaldi-Meucci Museum's Terza Domenica Heritage Series will offer "A Trip to Operatic Italy."

Fort Worth Opera (FWOpera) will kick off its 66th season and its sixth Festival with Puccini's blockbuster Tosca, followed by Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro.

On Sunday, May 15 at 1 p.m. the Garibaldi-Meucci Museum's Terza Domenica Heritage Series will offer "A Trip to Operatic Italy."

Today begins the one-year countdown to The Next Fifty, six months of events and activities planned in 2012 at Seattle Center that celebrate the 50th anniversary of the 1962 Seattle World's Fair, the legacy it left to the region, and the opportunities ahead during the next fifty years.

Four new productions and a collection of classics, including a reprise of Puccini's La Bohème, will take the stage at Bloomington's Musical Arts Center and the Buskirk-Chumley Theater during the 2011-2012 Indiana University Opera and Ballet Theater season.

St. Petersburg Opera is launching its first themed festival on April 30, 2011. Dedicated to the music of Giacomo Puccini, the festival includes eight separate events and a total of over twenty performances.

Washington National Opera (WNO) has announced that it will dedicate all remaining performances of Madama Butterfly to the people of Japan. At the top of performances, which run through March 19 at the Kennedy Center Opera House, the WNO Orchestra will perform the Japanese National Anthem, entitled 'Kimigayo,' in honor of all those affected by last week's earthquake and tsunami. Audience members who wish to support disaster relief will be encouraged to do so through the American Red Cross.

Nashville Opera's 2011-12 season will feature three beloved opera productions: Giuseppe Verdi's La Traviata, Ruggero Leoncavallo's I Pagliacci, and the Nashville Opera premiere of Giacomo Puccini's The Girl of the Golden West (La Fanciulla del West).

Florida Grand Opera has announced the productions for the 2011-2012 season, which will be the Company's 71st consecutive season of producing grand opera in South Florida. The season includes two important 'firsts' for FGO: the first presentation of a zarzuela, Torroba's Luisa Fernanda, and the first production of Puccini's La rondine. The season will also include Verdi's Rigoletto and Gounod's Rom o et Juliette.

Five students from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music will perform February 27 (Sunday), at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. The performance is part of the center's Conservatory Project, a weeklong concert series showcasing artists from America's leading music schools.