New spin on the venerable opera survives the translation from 1890s Paris to 21st-century London well, with only a few details damaged in the crossing ...

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Performances in N.Y.C. Critic’s Notebook A century after his death, the composer of “La Bohème,” “Tosca” and “Madama Butterfly” still dominates the repertoire like no one since. Credit... Supported by ...

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.

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 ...

Distinctive visionary Paolo Benvenuti ("Secret File") brings his historical eye to a troublesome period in Puccini's amorous life in "Puccini and the Girl," an often ravishing but unengrossing ...

Soprano Lise Davidsen will sing her first Tosca at the Metropolitan Opera, opposite tenor Freddie De Tommaso, who will make his Met debut, as David McVicar’s production of Puccini’s Tosca returns for ...

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 ...

The biggest hits in Tosca are easy to choose; it has two of the best-known arias in any opera. In Act Two, as Tosca (soprano Catherine Nagelstad) is being blackmailed by Scarpia, she sings ‘Vissi ...

The Metropolitan Opera’s 2025-26 season of Saturday matinee radio broadcasts continues with Puccini’s Manon Lescaut.

A house that played a central role in Giacomo Puccini's turbulent and ultimately tragic love life is up for sale – a three-storey building in the hills south of Lake Como to which the composer of ...