San Francisco Opera Center Artistic Director Carrie-Ann Matheson and General Manager Markus Beam has announced the 11 ...

With Tilman Michael, the Met’s new chorus master, this fine ensemble seems to be in very capable hands. Overenthusiasm aside, Nézet-Séguin knows his way around this score. Balance was never an issue, ...

Called Nessun Dorma, after one of Puccini’s most famous arias, the program will be performed on Saturday ... These artists ...

Giacomo Puccini, the composer of “La Bohème,” “Tosca” and “Madama Butterfly,” has been called the world’s most popular ...

The 2024-25 Kentucky Opera season launches this month with “Madama Butterfly,” a powerful tragedy from the legendary Giacomo ...

You thought it was Pavarotti, but it was doggo. This is the call and response you never knew Puccini’s great aria needed. Hugo, a very good boy from Whitley Bay, has been caught on camera singing ...

His plangent voice and perfect phrasing were outstanding; and his Act III aria “Eri tu,”when he shifts his anger from what he mistakenly thinks is his wife’s betrayal to that of Gustavus, was one of ...

Arias, not Action. The most radical of all these works is The Red Lantern, which recounts the heroism of a family in the Communist underground during the war against Japan. Madame Mao has ordered ...

London Philharmonic Orchestra/Karina Canellakis, Royal Festival Hall ★★★☆☆ It’s now almost de ...

The subject has clear connections to Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, although the dynamic ... the Chinese opera singer performs the famous aria Un Bel Dì). Yet much of it, though apt, is ...