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Herbert Ross’ production of Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème currently being presented by LA Opera has everything an audience venturing to the opera could hope for. When the curtain rises on Gerard Howland’s beautifully-textured scenery, one is instantly transported to a brutally cold winter scene speckled with the soft, orange glow tantalizingly emanating from windows.
The Dessoff Choirs - led by Music Director Malcolm J. Merriweather - will present its annual holiday concerts: Welcome Yule, followed by Messiah Sing.
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Portland Opera will present Puccini’s La Bohème November 15–23, 2025, at Keller Auditorium. Directed by Cara Consilvio and starring Hope Briggs and Alok Kumar.
For its 11th season, the Orchestre Philharmonique et Chœur des Mélomanes will offer three events featuring some of the most powerful works in the classical and operatic repertoire. Learn more!
For decades, Miss Saigon has occupied contested terrain within the musical theater canon—championed by some as an essential work, scrutinized by others for perpetuating orientalist narratives and reductive stereotypes.
Calgary Opera will open its 2025/26 main stage season with Giacomo Puccini’s tragic masterpiece Madama Butterfly, a timeless tale of love, betrayal, and cultural collision.
Madison Opera launches its 2025–26 season with Puccini’s timeless masterpiece La Bohème, performed November 7 and 9 at Overture Hall. The beloved opera follows the passionate and heartbreaking lives of young artists in Paris, featuring a dynamic new cast and direction by Alison Pogorelc, conducted by John DeMain.
Opera San José will continue its 42nd season, devoted to exploring the question “what is love?,” with Puccini's tragic masterpiece Madama Butterfly. Learn more here!
Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is October 6, 2025 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed over the weekend.
Director Shaun Rennie delivers his third imagining of RENT, this time in his biggest staging of the musical to date in the Joan Sutherland Theatre of Sydney Opera House. 32 years after Jonathan Larson’s (Music, Book, Lyrics) musical theatre adaptation of Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème was first presented as a workshop production in the off-Broadway New York Theatre Workshop in 1993, almost 30 years after it’s Broadway debeut at the Nederlander Theatre in 1996, and 27 years after it’s Australian premiere at the Theatre Royal in 1998, the “rock opera” retains a relevance.
This fall, step into a world of passion, sacrifice, and unforgettable music as A Night To Remember returns to the prestigious Belk Theater. Learn more about the performance here!
If you come to opera via film musicals and, later, stage shows, Tosca is amongst the most accessible. The story of the lovers and the evil apparatchik is told at a furious pace, trauma after trauma piling up as the emotional heft becomes all but unbearable. There’s no standing about for twenty minutes while someone sings stage left, no mythical dwarves hiding gold, no magical toymaker. Nor, as early critics were quick to point out, is there a whole lot of poetry either in Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa adaptation of Victorien Sardou’s sensational play. However, there are compensations…
Opera Carolina - the largest professional opera company in the Carolinas - has revealed programming for its upcoming 76th season with an ambitious lineup of grand operas, special concerts, philanthropic events, and community initiatives.
To kick off a year-long celebration of Opera Saratoga/Lake George Opera Festival's 65th anniversary, Opera Saratoga announces the first holiday opera in the company's history.
This fall, Atchley Opera, Fort Worth’s newest opera company, will invite audiences to experience the full range of human emotion through the exquisite storytelling and music of Giacomo Puccini.
En el marco de la segunda edición del Festival Internacional de Ópera Juvenil, la Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional Juvenil Bicentenario presenta la obra “Gianni Schicchi” de Giacomo Puccini en formato concierto.
Tosca comes to the Dutch National Opera in September. Love, power and betrayal take centre stage in Tosca, a psychological thriller by Giacomo Puccini.
Sarasota Opera has appointed Arthur Bosarge as its new Artistic Administrator. Bosarge has been a key member of the company's music staff since 2022, most recently serving as Chorus Master and Director of the Apprentice Artists Program.
With direction by André Heller-Lopes and musical direction by Priscila Bomfim, this production brings together Italian composer Giacomo Puccini and German composer Richard Strauss. This time, we will be presenting Strauss's opera Friedenstag (Day of Peace) for the first time in Latin America. Alongside it, another rarity: Le Villi (The Fairies), Puccini's first opera, forming an exclusive double bill featuring two one-act operas.
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