Italian composer Giacomo Puccini was the pop star of his era. Even 100 years after his death, his operas like 'Tosca,' 'Madama Butterfly' and 'La Boheme' remain staple repertoire — and politically ...

With operas such as 'Tosca,' 'Madama Butterfly' and 'La Boheme,' Giacomo Puccini still dominates the repertoire of opera ...

Italian is the language of opera, and its opera roots are deeply planted in Europe. However, many operas have exotic settings, far beyond the countries where their composers and librettists lived or ...

Its great aria Nessun Dorma is one of opera’s most famous, but there’s much more to Puccini’s complex final work. Antonio Pappano explains why it has taken him three decades to conduct it As a ...

Giacomo Puccini was not a prolific composer: in quite a long life he wrote only twelve operas, three of them one-acters designed to be performed together. Yet he has to be ranked today as the world's ...