Giacomo Puccini News

Meta comedy never settles on its tone nor its focus, and runs out of steam long before the end

In a year that honours 30 years since Opera Holland Park was established, the 2026 Season will open with a new production of Giacomo Puccini’s La fanciulla del West. Learn more!

Obras de Gluck, Mozart y Schubert, entre otros destacados compositores, serán interpretadas por el bajo Fernando Lozada Toxcoyoa y el pianista Israel Barrios el viernes 11 de julio a las 18 horas, en la Sala Manuel M. Ponce del Palacio de Bellas Artes.

Held at the Gran Teatro all’aperto, an open-air theater on the shores of Lake Massaciuccoli, the festival offers a unique opportunity to experience the timeless works of Giacomo Puccini in a breathtaking natural setting.

Des Moines Metro Opera has announced the repertory and preliminary casting for its 2026 Festival Season, running June 26 through July 19 at the Blank Performing Arts Center in Indianola, Iowa.

Cincinnati Opera has announced a new student access initiative designed to welcome and inspire the next generation of opera lovers. Thanks to a generous donation, students entering grades 7–12 (including 2025 high school graduates) are invited to attend select performances during the company's 2025 Summer Festival free of charge.

Estudiantes del sector infantil de la Escuela de Iniciación Artística No. 4 (EIA 4), adscrita a la Subdirección General de Educación e Investigación Artísticas (SGEIA) del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (INBAL), ofrecerán una Gala de Piano y Canto el jueves 26 de junio a las 16 horas, en el Museo José Luis Cuevas, ubicado en Academia No. 13, Centro Histórico de la Ciudad de México.

The cast has been announced for That Bastard, Puccini! which is making its world premiere in London this Summer. Learn more about the show here!

Il 14 giugno 2025 ore 16, presso l’Auditorium dell’APE Parma Museo, verrà presentato il volume “Musica, pensiero, interpretazione. Toscanini tra Puccini e Furtwängler”, edito dalla Casa Editrice Leo S. Olschki di Firenze.

Pasó tan solo un mes desde que el tenor mexicano Arturo Chacón-Cruz se apoderó del Palacio de Bellas Artes con su interpretación en Rigoletto, de Giuseppe Verdi, para que regresara triunfante con la Gala Chacón, un emotivo festejo por sus 25 años de trayectoria artística, organizado por la Secretaría de Cultura del Gobierno de México y el Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (INBAL), a través de la Coordinación Nacional de Ópera (CNO).

Grange Park Opera has opened its new season with a crowd-pleaser. Giacomo Puccini's Madama Butterfly remains problematic, with its story of a Japanese teenage geisha, impregnated and cruelly abandoned by an American lieutenant. However, it is still wildly popular, mainly due to its ravishing score.

A fierce artistic rivalry takes center stage this summer as That Bastard, Puccini! makes its world premiere at London’s Park Theatre. Running from 10 July to 9 August 2025.

Opera Australia is embarking on its 29th annual National Tour with Dean Bryant’s celebrated 70’s inspired bohemian production of Italian composer Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème, travelling around the country beginning in July.

Opera Montana - the state's oldest professional opera company -  has revealed its 2025-2026 season, the company's 48th. See the full season and learn how to purchase tickets.

Renowned Muscogee citizen soprano Kirsten C. Kunkle makes her debut in the title role of Tosca with Santa Clarita, California's Mission Opera. Reuniting with Kunkle from the world premiere of the first Native American language (Chickasaw) opera Loksi' Shaali' (“Shell Shaker”), tenor Hugo Vera, of Tiwa heritage, sings the role of Cavaradossi.

Giacomo Puccini's Turandot comes to the Israeli Opera next month.  Performances run 24 June - 7 July 2025. Learn more about the upcoming production here!

Opera Grand Rapids (OGR) has announced its trailblazing 2025-2026 season during the “A Night with the Opera: Hip Opera” gala, held Thursday evening at GLC Live at 20 Monroe.

Ending the season with a memorable production of one of opera’s most tour de force masterpieces is sure to motivate audiences to return for Seattle Opera’s next season

The San Francisco Opera Orchestra is stepping out of the War Memorial Opera House pit and into the community for free concerts at San Francisco and Oakland venues in May.

San Francisco Opera’s 2025 Summer Season opens June 3 with one of opera’s all-time classics, Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème in director John Caird’s “elegant staging” (Mercury News).