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.

Giacomo Puccini, the great Italian composer who left behind numerous operatic masterpieces.When you look at his photos, you ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. English National Opera's 2020 production of Giacomo Puccini's Madam Butterfly - Corbis Entertainment Among all the composers whose ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The 100th anniversary of Puccini’s death has provided an opportunity for Jonas Kaufmann to revisit the composer ...

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 ...

A house that played a central role in Giacomo Puccini's turbulent and ultimately tragic love life is up for sale – a three-storey building in the hills south of Lake Como to which the composer of ...

Talk Like An Opera Geek attempts to decode the intriguing and intimidating lexicon of the opera house. After the death in 1848 of Gaetano Donizetti (a virtual composing machine who cranked out over 60 ...