This Orientalist classic, left unfinished, has had to be completed since Puccini’s death. A new version hands that task to ...

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

From the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Puccini's Madame Butterfly starring Aleksandra Kurzak and Adam Smith in his Met ...

Giacomo Puccini (Lucca, 1858-Brussels, 1924), Italian composer, at the piano. Torre Del Lago Puccini, Museo Villa Puccini (Puccini'S House) (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images) It would have been a ...

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.

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 ...

Puccini set his one-act opera in the 17th century, but its tragic story has had many painfully real counterparts all too recently, says ENO’s Annilese Miskimmon Great operas have the ability to thrive ...

Puccini’s original score was ‘finished’ by Franco Alfano, whose additions are heard uncut on this dramatic all-star recording Antonio Pappano has never yet conducted Turandot in the theatre – and that ...

This is Puccini’s beans. You’ll need one kilo of cannellini beans, two to three whole heads of garlic—just slice a little off the top to reveal those cloves—and four or five fresh sage leaves.

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 ...

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 ...