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.

I’ve been posting daily music history tidbits on my social media and discovered that Michele Puccini was born on Wednesday, November 27 in 1813. Michele was the father of the much more famous Giacomo ...

It all began with audiences sitting on straw bales in a barn, and only after a purpose-built theatre came into being was there a small pit enabling something more than piano accompaniment for major ...

Puccini’s “Il Trittico,” staged over the next two weekends by OperaDelaware, is a rarity in the repertoire: a series of three one-act operas with nary a connection to one another save for the composer ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by The history and curiosity behind these operas, both set in Asia, complicate often simplistic criticisms of borrowing and stereotyping. By Zachary ...

Giacomo Puccini’s “La bohème” is easily one of the most popular operas of all time. Despite being written from 1893-95 and set in 1830, today’s audiences continue to find its romantic tale of ...