Before the curtain rises, a Pasolini quote appears. It’s a clear warning this TOSCA won’t simply walk through Puccini’s Rome.

What should opera look like in a world marked by rapid industrial and technological development? Though such questions certainly resonate in the 21st century, opera composers were asking the same ...

3 Full Cast Set For DIRTY DANCING: THE MUSICAL North American Tour One of opera's most popular and frequently performed works, Puccini's tragedy follows the patriotic artist Mario Cavaradossi and his ...

Perhaps it had something to do with how the opera has evolved socially since the days when Countess Olenska and Newland Archer could use the occasion to gaze at one another across the theatre. Does ...

Opera critics consider Giacomo Puccini’s “Tosca,” which is now playing at the San Francisco Opera, to be the epitome of the verismo style. When the opera premiered in 1900, many Italian composers were ...

When Giacomo Puccini’s “shabby little shocker” comes to the stage of the Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts this weekend, baritone Scott Hendricks will be singing a familiar role as the ...

Italy celebrated the inclusion of Italian opera singing on the World Heritage List with a gala concert at the Arena of Verona on Friday night that was broadcast on national television. The concert, ...

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