“Puccini’s music has always been a major part of Sarasota Opera repertoire, as it has been for many opera companies,” stated Artistic Director Victor DeRenzi. “His operas have made many people opera ...

The Music of Giacomo Puccini will launch Sarasota Opera’s 2023-2024 mainstage season. The concert will be conducted by Sarasota Opera artistic director and principal conductor Victor DeRenzi and will ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Opera Philadelphia will transport audiences to 19th-century Paris with Puccini's La bohme. "But it's a La bohme like you've never seen it before," says Frank Luzi, Vice ...

Marking 100 years since it first premiered, Opera Australia will present a spectacular, brand-new production of Puccini’s ...

The director, the playwright, his composer and their translator: No, this isn’t the cast of the Peabody Chamber Opera’s upcoming production, just the team that was necessary to bring it to life. But ...

The world of opera was shaken on the morning of November 29, 1924. Giacomo Puccini, the most famous composer of his time, had died in Brussels as a result of surgery for throat cancer. Or rather, as a ...

The Metropolitan Opera’s 2025-26 season of live Saturday matinee radio broadcasts begins with Puccini’s La Bohème!

“Almighty God touched me with His little finger,” wrote Giacomo Puccini, “and said: ‘Write for the theater . . .’ I have obeyed the supreme command.” He obeyed so successfully that he became one of ...

The University of Arizona Voice and Opera Theater is doing a pair of one-act, hour-long operas four days in a row, Giacomo Puccini’s “Suor Angelica” and “Gianni Schicchi.” “These two operas are not as ...

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