Opera Colorado will present Puccini's MADAMA BUTTERFLY at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House, directed by Mo Zhou, who reframes ...

Just as Butterfly is trapped with little agency in this opera, we as Asian Americans have been trapped by many of the ...

Jackie Chan is heading to the opera house. The legendary actor and martial arts icon will make his opera directing debut with ...

The November production of "Tosca" will launch a season-long exploration of the topic of faith by Detroit Opera.

Puccini reinvented grand opera on an intimate, human scale, painting the lives of everyday men and women through music of exquisite and timeless beauty, with arias that speak directly to the heart.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. English National Opera’s 2020 production of Giacomo Puccini’s Madam Butterfly - Corbis Entertainment Among all the composers whose ...

Carlos Rizzi believes that Puccini’s orchestrations are good enough to stand alone, without their vocal lines, but can the ...

For 84 years, opera buffs have puzzled over how the Italian composer Giacomo Puccini meant to end one of his best-loved operas, Turandot, which is set in a mythical China. Puccini died before he ...

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 ...

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 ...