| 单词 | Puccini |
| 例句 | He’d sit forward while the notes of Puccini sounded before him. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The musical had, as the twentieth century matured, gratefully filled the vacuum created by opera’s self-imposed exile from accessibility, an attribute it had successfully maintained from the 1630s to Puccini’s last operas in the 1920s. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The unveiling in 1926 of a new opera by the last great Italian composer in the genre, Giacomo Puccini, could fairly be described as a media event on a global scale. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Audiences may well have flocked to new, younger Puccinis, had they come along, but composers didn’t want to be new Puccinis any more. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Patrick Summers, the company's music director, led an inspired performance that made the familiar score sound fresh and brought out Puccini's genius for unexpected subtleties. Soprano Martinez tries out "Butterfly" wings 2010-10-23T18:16:00Z I spent five years at English National Opera with Puccini, Wagner and contemporary repertoire. Harry Bicket, Conducting Mozart’s ‘Clemenza di Tito’ at Met 2012-11-09T23:06:30Z The sound had been lusher and silkier the previous Saturday, when Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly,” which runs through May 7, was revived at the company, conducted by Alexander Soddy. Putin Says Tchaikovsky Is Being Canceled. The Met Opera Disagrees. 2022-03-27T04:00:00Z The soundtrack of the commuter’s daily life acquired a purple grandeur, with Bowie, Labelle and Madonna assuming the velvet cloaks of Verdi and Puccini. Review: Hit Songs to Sin By in a Smashing ‘Moulin Rouge!’ 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z Liv Redpath soared above the male principals and a male chamber chorus like an alien creature from planet Puccini. Walt Whitman's operatic America in 'Crossing' gets its West Coast premiere 2018-05-27T04:00:00Z In an operatic era allegedly fixated on Puccini, it’s odd that companies don’t mine Massenet’s scores more: “Manon” and “Werther” are staples, but the other works, though once wildly popular, are today only infrequently performed. The sorely neglected opera that, performed like WCO did, could make opera a hit 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z Lloyd Webber may be dismissed by some as a second-rate Puccini, but at its best his music can summon feelings in an audience without necessarily cheapening them, and the cast sang strongly and clear. Why are we snooty about musicals? 2010-03-20T00:07:00Z There are several recordings, but it’s safe to say that “Fanciulla” is the least popular of Puccini’s mature operas. Review | ‘Girl of the Golden West’ rides high at Strathmore 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z At the Metropolitan Opera last week, performances of Gershwin’s “Porgy and Bess” and Puccini’s “La Bohème,” both in the midst of long runs, might not have seemed particularly newsworthy. When News Upstages an Opera Performance 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z “It’s about the power of art to humanize,” the star soprano Renée Fleming, who recorded the arias by Dvorak and Puccini that Ms. Moore lip-syncs to in the film, said in an interview. Opera in Film Takes On a New Note in ‘Bel Canto’ (It’s Not Evil) 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z “Yet Gershwin wrote something that ranks with Puccini in terms of crafting great melodies and great theater.” Op-Ed Columnist: In ?Porgy and Bess,? Variations on an Explosive Theme 2012-01-22T04:49:04Z Held onstage during the intermission between Puccini’s first two acts and prefaced by a short assemblage of filmed performance clips, the ceremony was simple. Review: Plácido Domingo Reaches 50 Years at the Met Opera 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z Winter grips Paris at the start of the third act of Puccini’s “La Bohème.” Review: In ‘La Bohème’ at the Met, the Star Is in the Pit 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z “Puccini’s ravishingly melancholy work seemed, like many operas of its time, to romance death,” Ben Brantley wrote in his 1996 review for The New York Times. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Rent’ and the SAG Awards 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z Though the version he settled on leaves holes in the story the thrust of the tale is emotionally compelling thanks to Puccini’s lyrically soaring music. In Met’s ‘Manon Lescaut,’ Classic Love Story Gets Noir Twist 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z But the fact that so many singers of her stature hew to the standard repertory suggests how stultified the world of opera has become since the days when Puccini’s operas took the world by storm. Anna Netrebko, Consider New Opera. Please. 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z Opera houses usually put on the standard completions of Puccini’s “Turandot” and Berg’s “Lulu.” Music’s Most Treacherous Assignment: Finishing Mozart 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z “With this story, it can easily become sentimental, like Puccini,” Mr. van Hove said. Charles Wuorinen Adapts ‘Brokeback Mountain’ as Opera 2014-01-24T19:26:19Z To this day, he regularly takes in classical concerts, and wrote this memoir while listening to Puccini, learning only later that the composer himself suffered from bipolar disorder. A Publishing Superstar Whose Memoir Shuns Glitz to Explore Private Torment 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z The film director Anthony Minghella revives this timeless opera by Puccini. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘The Masked Singer’ and the Super Bowl 2020-02-02T05:00:00Z When Henry was a small boy, he loved to watch Puccini’s opera “La Boheme” on television with his father; he called it “The Blue Hen.” Books of The Times: Phantoms of the Mind, No Longer Shocking But No Less Haunting 2011-02-01T21:45:58Z As a leading contemporary Butterfly, Racette defends Puccini's conception of the character heartily. Opera preview: 'Madama Butterfly' at Seattle Opera 2012-04-25T20:40:08Z From her first entrance, Ms. Netrebko was every bit Puccini’s passionate, vulnerable and charismatic heroine, a renowned prima donna in 1800 Rome. The Best Classical Music of 2018 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z And the qualities any Puccini opera needs to overwhelm its audience — great singing and acting — were in unstinting supply. At Seattle Opera, a must-see ‘La Bohème’ 2013-02-25T17:56:45Z “His creativity in programming has attracted new audiences. Our ‘Essential Puccini’ in 2009 was an enormous success and started the ‘Essential’ series.” A polymath in D.C.: The long ascendancy of conductor-composer Julian Wachner Opera production of Puccini's "La Rondine" looked better here than it did in the Pavilion. Musco Center's sound decision pays dividends in hall's debut 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z Massenet holds all the dramatic cards here, so you’d expect his opera to overshadow Puccini’s. For Many, Opera and Puccini Are One (Trump’s Campaign Knows the Appeal) 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z Netrebko was to have sung five performances in a revival of Puccini’s “Turandot” at the Met in New York from April 30 to May 14. Dropped by Met, Netrebko to sing at Monte Carlo Opera 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z This distinguishes her Verdi and Puccini singing from the typical throbbing Italianate approach. Review: Anna Netrebko Makes ‘Aida’ Her Own at the Met Opera 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z And beyond the church, that voice won him moments of more secular glory, as when he was engaged as the shepherd boy in a production of Puccini’s “Tosca” at the Rome Opera. The Great Tenor Hope (Just Ask Him) 2010-10-14T16:47:00Z The language issue caused a minor scandal in March, when he said that Spanish singers “interpret Verdi the same way as Puccini,” which led to the formation of a Facebook group calling for his ouster. Arts & Leisure: Arena Opera, Mortier Style 2011-07-14T13:38:17Z She was tentative at first, though it is hard to start off strongly given the way Puccini introduces this character. Music Review: Kristine Opolais Makes Met Debut in Puccini’s ‘Rondine’ 2013-01-13T21:20:46Z But every moment that is striking in “Red Chamber” is every moment that doesn’t resemble Puccini, and most of that is in the orchestra. Chinese opera 'Dream of the Red Chamber' opens in San Francisco with much ambition, too little nerve 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z And this was another fine night for the conductor Fabio Luisi, who coaxed plush, textured playing from the impressive Met Orchestra, while bringing refreshing restraint and lucid detail to Puccini’s often teeming score. In Met’s ‘Manon Lescaut,’ Classic Love Story Gets Noir Twist 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z Puccini — a superstar in an era when opera was popular entertainment — was paid a hefty fee to come to New York in the winter of 1907. When Puccini Came, Saw and Conquered New York City 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z But in the company’s 137-year history, there has likely never been a production with a birth as tumultuous as that of the high-stakes new staging of Puccini’s “Tosca,” opening on New Year’s Eve. Behind the Scenes of ‘Tosca,’ the Messiest Production in Met History 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z Since the glory days of Verdi and Puccini, many have tried to package opera for the masses. 2010-02-06T03:26:00Z Puccini is the model, though he was a more savvy dramatist who saved soaring melodies for crucial moments. Review: A Maudlin Trip Down the Amazon, With a Star in Disguise 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z But Puccini knows it, and, hearing this musical moment, the audience does too. Anthony Tommasini’s Musical Moments 2012-11-16T16:10:59Z But the inspiration for the vocal lines was Puccini. 'Florencia en el Amazonas' a culture clash solved by orchestra 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z This year it hastily put together an abbreviated season, and its first productions, of Puccini’s “Tosca” and Stewart Wallace’s 1997 chamber opera “Hopper’s Wife,” received mixed reviews. New York City Opera to Join Forces With Harold Prince Next Season 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z There was an opera singer, a female tenor under the bridge singing some Puccini piece, and also in the distance there was a saxophone player. Dev Hynes: New York’s Last Bohemian on the City and His New Album 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z Its current season includes only one war horse, Puccini’s “Tosca,” and a few less-traveled works, like Handel’s “Agrippina” and Britten’s “Midsummer Night’s Dream,” that have significant constituencies. Music Review: Oppressor?s Tale, Written in Oppression 2011-02-02T23:08:54Z And when Minnie rescues Johnson from hanging, and the lovers ride off into the sunset at the opera’s end, Puccini wanted them on horseback. Music Review: Puccini?s Western Seeks Lyrical Gold 2010-12-07T17:10:00Z Domingo, so unforgettable in the tortured laments of Puccini's characters, is our designated sufferer. Pl?cido Domingo: 'I am a very happy man, but I love to suffer on stage' 2010-07-17T23:05:00Z Puccini’s tragedy about artist poverty, love and chronic illness will never feel more timely, no matter how long ago and far away the story is set. 8 Seattle-area classical music picks for fall 2021 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z Westbroek, a Dutch soprano much admired in the standard repertory of Wagner, Verdi and Puccini, throws herself into the title role with all of her considerable assets. Anna Nicole, the opera: She aims to sleaze 2011-02-18T01:35:12Z Among those honored there over the years have been the composer Giacomo Puccini and the singers Enrico Caruso, Luciano Pavarotti and Beverly Sills. A Memorial for Jessye Norman at the Met Opera, Where She Reigned 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z The Prince of Persia is one of the few characters actually to be beheaded on stage in Puccini's Turandot, but for obvious reasons this regrettably tends to take place out of view of the audience. Mike Figgis beds down with Lucrezia Borgia 2011-01-20T22:00:02Z Perhaps what the campaign was embracing was not opera, per se, but Puccini, and Puccini alone. For Many, Opera and Puccini Are One (Trump’s Campaign Knows the Appeal) 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z “I love Puccini,” he said, “but I would cut some of it.” Some Ground Rules for Revising Operas and Musicals 2012-03-11T05:41:51Z The waiting, the passion and the desire that are so central to Puccini’s opera remain, as do the musical’s greatest hits, arias, duets and all. Review | A ‘Butterfly’ without the stereotypes takes flight at In Series 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z Puccini’s paralyzing three-year search for a suitable operatic subject was over. When Puccini Rode Tall In the Saddle 2010-12-03T19:38:00Z The company, known for spectacular stagings of operas such as Georges Bizet’s “Carmen” and Giacomo Puccini’s “La Boheme,” furloughed its orchestra, chorus and stagehands in March. 'Carmen' and coronavirus don't match: NYC's Met Opera closed till December 31 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z Madama Butterfly” had already tapped the natural synergy between Puccini and Belasco, both crowd-pleasing populists who focused more on a sturdy dramatic arc, filled out with realistic detail, than on literary distinction. When Puccini Rode Tall In the Saddle 2010-12-03T19:38:00Z His operas continue the heritage of Puccini and Strauss. Music Review: Amorous Confusion in Pasatieri?s Adaptation of Chekhov?s Play 2010-09-27T21:44:00Z “When Daniel plays important clarinet solos such as in Puccini’s ‘Tosca,’ you can see that it is very deep in his soul and body,” he said. When One Instrument Speaks in Three Voices 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z He was 16 when he attended his first opera at the Met: Puccini’s “La Bohème.” Yannick Nézet-Séguin to Succeed James Levine as Met Opera’s Music Director 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z The archives contain scores and designs, as well as records, like a legal document signed by Puccini registering the name of the opera as “Madama Butterfly” two days before the Milan premiere. Puccini’s ‘Madama Butterfly’ Returns to the Scene of a Disastrous Opening 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z She also studied opera at Oberlin, and hosted a quirky podcast called Aria Code that deconstructed excerpts from Puccini and Verdi. Rhiannon Giddens Is Writing an Opera 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z You may have heard that Dudamel is just coming off his Vienna State Opera debut in Puccini’s last opera, “Turandot,” where he was booed on opening night and received, as they say, mixed reviews. Booed in Vienna, Dudamel makes revelatory L.A. Opera debut to frenzied cheers 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z He made the instrumental colors of Puccini’s orchestral writing sparkle. Booed in Vienna, Dudamel makes revelatory L.A. Opera debut to frenzied cheers 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z His new recital disc presents a cross-section of arias, familiar and otherwise, by Verdi, Puccini and Donizetti. Vittorio Grigolo: The Italian Tenor 2010-10-07T21:40:00Z But once the glow of the premiere had dimmed, it was open season on Puccini. When Puccini Rode Tall In the Saddle 2010-12-03T19:38:00Z It's a nervousness that would have baffled or irritated Verdi, Wagner or Puccini, but Britten, in 1945, wasn't alone in feeling it. A History of Opera by Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker – review 2012-12-13T07:53:01Z “I just thought of putting myself in the head of Puccini, Verdi, Bellini. It’s very different from ‘Intimate Apparel,’ which is very American.” One Opera Opening Would Make Any Composer Happy. He Has Two. 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z But stating the obvious serves to explain why the Metropolitan Opera’s season premiere performance of Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly,” on Monday evening, was on the whole agreeable despite its substantial shortcomings. Music Review: ?Madama Butterfly? at the Metropolitan Opera - Review 2011-12-08T22:28:07Z By way of contrast, the company's revival of Puccini's "Turandot" represents a triumph of the traditional, taking a fairy tale of ancient China on its own terms and bringing it to life through dazzling stagecraft. Modern 'Figaro,' timeless 'Turandot' in Sydney 2012-03-11T05:02:10Z But the time may have come for a more probing and restrained take on what is — for me and many others — Puccini’s great final opera. Review: The Met’s ‘Turandot,’ Strongly Sung, Garishly Staged 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z An inert production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Carousel” on Saturday afternoon was followed by a lithe performance of Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” that evening, and Strauss’s “Ariadne auf Naxos” was cozy and charming on Monday. ‘An American Tragedy’ and More at Glimmerglass 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z The play’s end deliberately inverts the famous bloody climax of Puccini’s “Madame Butterfly.” By chance, meeting the disgraced ‘M. Butterfly’ diplomat whose lover misled him 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z SALZBURG, Austria — Opera-goers attending Salzburg Festival's new production of Puccini's "La Boheme" expected the worst when the man with the microphone stepped out, shortly before show-time - but then came the good news. Strauss' 'Ariadne,' Puccini's 'Boheme' both please 2012-08-06T23:01:05Z I will do Italian masters such as Puccini and Verdi. Royal Opera’s Next Leader Keeps Quality in Mind and Home in His Heart 2023-07-01T04:00:00Z Puccini’s young bohemians, cheerily impoverished members of the 99 percent, initially occupy their freezing garret with carefree abandon. Music Review: ?La Boh?me? at the Met: Life in Zeffirelli Style - Review 2011-11-20T22:51:46Z Themes for these monthly parties are always pegged to the opera of the night, which so far has included tuneful favorites of the repertory: Verdi’s “Otello” and “Rigoletto,” and Puccini’s “Tosca.” Lincoln Center Works to Attract a Younger Audience 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z For more than 30 years, the known quantity of attending Puccini’s “La Bohème” at the Metropolitan Opera has been Franco Zeffirelli’s colorful, minutely detailed and popular production. Opera Review: Zeffirelli’s ‘La Bohème’ Staging Still Elicits Sighs and Awe 2014-01-15T22:43:27Z Originally a mezzo-soprano, she made a striking departure by taking on soprano parts, too, which gave her access to marquee roles in operas such as Richard Strauss’s “Salome” and Puccini’s “Tosca.” Grace Bumbry, Barrier-Shattering Opera Diva, Is Dead at 86 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z Puccini, something of a musical magpie, and not exactly progressive, nevertheless had his finger on the pulse of the 20th century to an astonishing degree – sentimentality, cruelty, hedonistic abandon, alienation. The Rest is Noise festival: what's your favourite piece of 20th-century music? 2012-11-29T20:00:02Z Is it Verdi, is it Puccini, is it Wagner?’ A Conductor Comes Into His Own in the Opera Pit 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z The nostalgia we feel for it has become as much a part of the opera as Puccini’s score. ‘La Bohème’: Should Opera’s Most Beloved Classic Be Changed? 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z In the coming seasons, he is scheduled to conduct operas by composers including Wagner, Strauss, Puccini, Poulenc and Verdi — including a new production of “La Traviata” in 2018-19. Yannick Nézet-Séguin to Succeed James Levine as Met Opera’s Music Director 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z Musically, Mr. Catán was known for a neo-Romantic style that was compared variously to Puccini, Ravel and , with lush orchestrations and lyrical melodic lines. Daniel Cat?n, Composer of Operas in Spanish, Dies at 62 2011-04-12T02:28:20Z When "Aida" inaugurated the first summer opera season at the Arena in 1913, the audience included composer Puccini, whose operas are as renowned as Verdi's. Revel in opera in Italy 2010-07-25T04:46:00Z But on Tuesday the old Met, a company of grand tradition and unabashed spectacle, returned with a revival of Puccini’s “Turandot” in Franco Zeffirelli’s glittering, gaudy, opulent, tacky and overwhelmingly popular 1987 production. Review: The Met’s ‘Turandot,’ Strongly Sung, Garishly Staged 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z Despite several awkward scenery-change pauses, the opera overall flowed with passages reminiscent of Mozart, Rossini, Puccini and Wagner under conductor Benjamin Dia’s baton. Filipino opera gets its Washington premiere at the Kennedy Center Pinkerton was portrayed by Puccini as this white man who doesn’t know or respect Eastern traditions or culture, and just abuses Cio-Cio-San, and takes advantage of her, both physically and psychologically. The Composer Huang Ruo on Illusion and Betrayal in ‘M. Butterfly’ 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z First, I got to be a stock character in a Puccini opera, one of those impoverished artists all but bursting into song in a great city’s underside. New York City’s Gift of Motion: A 1970s Tale 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z More than one aria bore a distinct whiff of Puccini. Music Review: In ?Moby-Dick? in Dallas, Big Role for the Roiling Sea 2010-05-02T22:07:00Z And suddenly I felt I was back in the era of this poperetta’s prototype, “Madame Butterfly” – not the Puccini opera, but the 1900 play that inspired it. London Theater Journal: Two Wars, With Song and Sentiment 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z "The work of a madman … sheer cacophony," wrote the composer Puccini. Rite that caused riots: celebrating 100 years of The Rite of Spring 2013-05-27T14:01:47Z This was just another day at work, after all, and he had to be back in the morning to begin producing Puccini’s “La Fanciulla del West.” If He Does This Met Opera Job Well, You’ll Never Know He Exists 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z Puccini and Verdi meet lasers and fireworks in this special FX-ladened classical, er, spectacular. This week's new events 2013-03-15T17:27:46Z Caruso was his constant companion — window-shopping for fancy clothes and expensive automobiles, a passion of Puccini’s. When Puccini Came, Saw and Conquered New York City 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z For a better integration of Puccini and rock, head to “The Phantom of the Opera,” a few blocks away. Review: Roll Over, Beethoven? At ‘Rocktopia,’ It’s Time to Roll Back 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z Can you give an example of how Puccini’s music influenced the score of “M. Butterfly”? The Composer Huang Ruo on Illusion and Betrayal in ‘M. Butterfly’ 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z His last album, 2011’s “Legacy” featured a piece by his son, Anthony, as well as his own compositions based on themes by classical composers Igor Stravinsky, Claude Debussy and Giacomo Puccini. Gerald Wilson, bandleader, composer, dies The 55-year-old tenor says he’ll receive a master’s degree in vocal performance from The Conservatory of Music, Giacomo Puccini in La Spezia, Italy, on Tuesday. Tenor Andrea Bocelli to Receive Master’s Next Week 2013-10-17T16:45:53Z On Thursday night, the company revived Puccini's "Girl of the Golden West," just one day shy of the 100th anniversary of the work's world premiere at the Metropolitan Opera. Review:"Williams Tell" celebrates all things Swiss 2010-12-10T12:08:00Z When she was 9, she was invited by a cousin to her first opera: Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly,” in Bucharest. Virginia Zeani, Versatile and Durable Soprano, Dies at 97 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z Last September, the company offered a “drive-in opera experience,” featuring an abridged performance of Puccini’s “La Bohème” broadcast over large screens in a London park. Opera Singers Help Covid-19 Patients Learn to Breathe Again 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z The past month has also brought Puccini’s elaborate “Turandot” and the Met’s first time doing the original version of Mussorgsky’s “Boris Godunov.” A 6-Hour Opera in a Pandemic? The Met Goes for It. 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z Say what you will about Mr. Lloyd Webber, no composer since Puccini has managed to write tunes that adhere so insistently to the memory. Theater Review: ?Evita,? Starring Elena Roger, at the Marquis Theater 2012-04-06T02:00:09Z The plucky Amore Opera often seems to fill gaps in the city’s season, and so it is with this production of Puccini’s classic love story. 5 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z “Puccini took kitsch plays,” he said, “and ennobled them.” When musicals become operas 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z It is a case of dueling Puccini albums. Jonas Kaufmann Takes Issue With Decca Over Puccini Album 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z Whereas the machinery was for some viewers the calling card of this rewrite of Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly,” one had to wonder whether the human element hadn’t been sacrificed on the altar of an airborne prop. Musical Revivals Offer Mixed Rewards 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z A Puccini specialist, she was known in particular for the title role in “Madama Butterfly,” a part she sang more than 300 times. Licia Albanese, Exalted Soprano, Is Dead at 105 2014-08-16T04:00:00Z That excludes him from the Puccini, Verdi and Wagner that dominate many opera companies’ programming. The falsetto pharoah: The story behind the powerfully high voice in L.A. Opera's 'Akhnaten' 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z How likely is it that Puccini heard the box now on display at the Morris Museum? Classical: Puccini Opera Echoes a Music Box at the Morris Museum 2012-06-17T01:03:03Z Opera buffs waiting for Ms. Fleming to sing Puccini heroines or Verdi’s Leonora will probably wait in vain. The Week Ahead: Jan. 9 ? 15 2011-01-07T17:43:18Z They can't actually be talking about the same Italian opera, because Johnson died before the composers that Stein is on about – Rossini, Puccini and Verdi – were born. Rick Stein's Food of the Italian Opera 2010-06-02T07:00:00Z The emotional transparency that set Puccini apart from his contemporaries was demonstrated again and again over the weekend. For Many, Opera and Puccini Are One (Trump’s Campaign Knows the Appeal) 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z The composer and playwright is best known as the creator of “Rent,” a musical loosely based on Puccini’s 1896 opera, “La Bohème.” ‘Tick, Tick … Boom!’: A Musical Based on a Musical About Writing a Musical. We Explain. 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z Last fall, she channeled that Puccini heroine for the Lyric Opera Baltimore. `An opera singer discovers her ‘subtle voice’ 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z It was during that first trip to New York that Puccini attended one of the most notorious performances in opera history: the American premiere of Richard Strauss’s “Salome.” When Puccini Came, Saw and Conquered New York City 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z It’s expanded rapidly, from Britten chamber operas to full-blown Puccini played in a permanent tent-like structure on the property with a full-size orchestra pit. Wolf Trap Opera, Castleton Festival launch unevenly but laudably on same weekend Just like the old City Opera, the new one begins with “Tosca,” in a re-creation of the original 1900 production of Puccini’s classic. Classical Music Listings for Jan. 22-28 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z Photograph: Tristram Kenton The poor, cold students in Puccini's La bohème, reduced to picturesque desperation in their Parisian garret, long for the coming of spring. La bohème; Koyaanisqatsi/Britten Sinfonia; Der fliegende Holländer – review 2012-12-23T00:09:28Z Opera is mounting only this and two ubiquitous Puccini operas — "Madame Butterfly" and "La Bohème." L.A. Opera again casts an enchanting spell with its silent-movie-styled ' Magic Flute' 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z The rethought opera harks back to the days before texts were considered sacrosanct, when composers like Handel, Verdi and Puccini continued to tinker with and transform their finished works over the years. Revisiting the Opera ‘Appomattox,’ in the Course of Human Events 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z It was a gamble for this soprano to sing the touchstone title role of Puccini’s “Tosca” for the first time ever this spring at the Metropolitan Opera. The Best Classical Music of 2018 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z When she sang that Puccini aria on “America’s Got Talent,” the crowd was dazzled by nothing more or less than her prodigious vocal abilities. Jackie Evancho and the Politics of Childhood 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z The Puccini opera returned to the Lyric repertory for the first time in nearly two decades Saturday night at the Civic Opera House. Hints of tarnish on Lyric's 'Golden West' 2011-01-24T00:43:00Z However aristocratic and privileged opera's historical pedigree might be, there is nothing in Monteverdi, Mozart, Verdi, or Puccini's works that has to tie them exclusively to the social conditions in which they were created. Love opera. Don't fall into the trappings trap 2010-05-27T21:00:00Z He references the crowds that lined the streets for Verdi’s funeral and that by the 1920s, Puccini died and the medium was “dead in five years.” Brad Pitt is ready to kick masculinity to the curb: ‘We have to redefine it’ 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z English National Opera's new staging by Catherine Malfitano, who made her name as an international soprano before becoming a director, is part of ENO's commitment "to refreshing core Puccini repertoire". Tosca; La fille du r?giment; Takacs Quartet 2010-05-22T23:05:00Z In Gray's classical, handsomely photographed approach, inspired by Puccini's "Suor Angelica" opera, critics have either gone with its intimate story of American passage, or they haven't. Cannes: 'The Immigrant' stirs emotional response 2013-05-25T21:43:18Z How did Puccini become identified, for so many, with opera itself? For Many, Opera and Puccini Are One (Trump’s Campaign Knows the Appeal) 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z Patrick Summers, music director of the Houston Grand Opera, led a flowing performance from the Met orchestra, far more used to Verdi and Puccini than Gluck. Domingo, having turned 70, returns to Met Opera 2011-02-13T20:35:16Z Ms. Westbroek, known for heavier roles by Puccini, Verdi and Wagner, is new to contemporary opera, and she admits to finding it a challenge. Far From Valhalla: A Tabloid Star Is Joining The Sisterhood Of the Fallen 2011-02-13T01:06:18Z But her combination of reticence and sensuality work well for Mimi, Puccini’s ailing bohemian seamstress whose outer meekness barely disguises her inner longing. Music Review | 'La Boh?me: The Gang?s All Here: Mimi, Rodolfo and Zeffirelli 2010-02-22T06:01:00Z That Ms. Abramovic will be collaborating with Mr. Wilson, a once-radical creator of epic experimental works and now best known for his ritualistic productions of Puccini and Wagner, is also perfect. Art: Marina Abramovic?s Silent Sitting at MoMA Reaches Finale 2010-05-30T22:22:00Z One thing everyone seems to agree on is that “Il Postino” sounds a lot like Puccini. Opera Review: Pablo Neruda and His Mailman, This Time Sung 2010-12-14T13:59:19Z On the musical side Puccini’s full-throated, melodramatic and unabashedly tonal verismo style swiftly became and remained the lingua franca of American opera. When Puccini Rode Tall In the Saddle 2010-12-03T19:38:00Z But, as this opera’s often-alluring score reveals, Respighi was attuned to works by Puccini, Debussy and Richard Strauss. Review: Diving Into the Lake for a Respighi Rarity at City Opera 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z Instead, Puccini shows us what happens next: Manon living a life of luxury as Geronte’s mistress in his palatial Paris apartment, which is Act II. In Met’s ‘Manon Lescaut,’ Classic Love Story Gets Noir Twist 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z “My heart is beating like the double basses in the card scene,” a pleased Puccini was quoted as saying. When Puccini Came, Saw and Conquered New York City 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z On paper it’s pretty sordid, but Puccini’s gorgeous music elevates the experience to something sublime. Why Seattle Opera’s ‘Tosca’ is worth staying indoors for 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z Over the weekend the Met said that he would not conduct coming productions of Puccini’s “Tosca” — the opera in which he made his Met debut in 1971 — and Alban Berg’s “Lulu.” Scrambling at the Met Before James Levine?s Surgery 2010-04-05T22:24:00Z Of the 25 operas the Met is presenting this season, five are by Puccini; not a single offering is new. Anna Netrebko, Consider New Opera. Please. 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z She and some other singers were rehearsing the second act of Puccini’s “Tosca,” and the moment had arrived when Cavaradossi, the passionate tenor lead, scuffles with the henchmen who are restraining him. Angela Gheorghiu, Diva of the Old School, Is Back at the Met 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z With “Proximity,” he avoided the obvious decision to play the three pieces one after the other, à la Puccini’s “Il Trittico.” Review: In Chicago, an Opera Triptych Reaches for Connection 2023-03-26T04:00:00Z Whatever the reason for the disastrous reception, Puccini promptly set to work on changes. Puccini’s ‘Madama Butterfly’ Returns to the Scene of a Disastrous Opening 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z On election night in 2008, the last time there was no incumbent running, a performance of Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” sold just 57 percent of its seats, while the rest of the run sold 89 percent. Tuesday Night’s Literal Showstoppers: Clinton and Trump 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z It wasn’t so long ago this season — just January — that the Metropolitan Opera’s programming was about as classic as it gets: tried-and-true works by Verdi, Puccini and Mozart. Review: The Met’s ‘Akhnaten’ Takes a Post-Grammys Victory Lap 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z Her Tosca arrived at the Metropolitan Opera last March, and on Tuesday, she revisited the title role of Puccini’s tragedy in David McVicar’s attractive, if stolid, production. Review: ‘Tosca’ Returns, Defined by Its Quiet Moments 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z The opera superstar was scheduled to sing one of his signature pieces from Giacomo Puccini's "Turandot," but half an hour after the show began he canceled due to illness. "Aretha" crowns the Queen of Soul in glory, thanks to star Cynthia Erivo's own genius 2021-03-20T04:00:00Z She appeared in a variety of operas but was most closely associated with those by Italian composers Giacomo Puccini and Giuseppe Verdi. Italian-born soprano Licia Albanese dies in New York at 105 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z “Every Woman a Song and Nothing More, to Puccini,” was the headline on an Evening Mail story. When Puccini Came, Saw and Conquered New York City 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z Puccini penned some of his most famous arias in his Tuscan house by the marshy Lake Massaciuccoli in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Revel in opera in Italy 2010-07-25T04:46:00Z Puccini’s New York visits were filled with incident and intrigue, success and frustration. When Puccini Came, Saw and Conquered New York City 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z Puccini also mined American Indian musical material from several early ethnographic collections. When Puccini Rode Tall In the Saddle 2010-12-03T19:38:00Z Given the mayhem of the Europe in which Puccini wrote it in 1917, this sad little Parisian/seaside romance seems like artistic escapism of the worst kind. La Rondine ? review 2011-07-11T20:30:01Z His personal page on the website for Georgetown’s Jesuit community lists the Italian composer Giacomo Puccini among his favorite artists, but also the outré filmmaker John Waters. John W. O’Malley, Leading Catholic Historian, Dies at 95 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z As Puccini knew when he watched the premiere, his pulse racing, what happens on the Met stage matters. Review: Puccini’s American Opera Needs a New American Vision 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z La Scala General Manager Pereira said the depiction of a suicide was too audacious for the times, but now La Scala is determined to show “this masterpiece in the version as Puccini wanted it.” La Scala opens next season with Puccini's 'Madama Butterfly' 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z It’s not just the chestnuts of Puccini and Verdi that are capable of speaking to a broad audience. A Trio of Dangerous Women in a Met Opera Week to Remember 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z As the acts rewind, he stops the action to ask questions that make Puccini’s tragedy more about the why than the what of it all. At the Spoleto Festival, Opera Is an Act of Liberation 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z She might have gone on to a professional career in basketball, in fact, had she not found opera during her senior year as a chorus member in Puccini’s “Tosca.” How a Fast-Rising Opera Singer Prepared for Her Met Debut 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z The Bondy production will be replaced on New Year’s Eve with a new one, by David McVicar, more faithful to Puccini’s settings — but with a raked stage, to give audiences a slightly different perspective. Highlights From the Met Opera’s 2017-18 Season 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z One of the puzzles about La rondine is how Puccini could embark on such a saccharine story just as Europe, in the summer of 1914, was collapsing into war. Tosca; La rondine; Arensky Chamber Orchestra ? review 2011-07-16T23:07:14Z He disclosed that he had first hurt the disc lifting a colleague during a performance of Puccini’s “Bohème” on the Met’s June tour to Japan and was already in pain. Mariusz Kwiecien on the Mend for ?Don Giovanni? at the Met 2011-10-24T11:01:06Z The role is an appropriate follow-up to Ms. Voigt’s Minnie in Puccini’s “Girl of the Golden West” last season at the Metropolitan Opera, where she also sang Brünnhilde in “Die Walküre.” Opera Star Tries Doin? What Comes Natur?lly 2011-07-14T22:16:30Z Two bits of information stuck with me as I experienced the closing performance of “Butterfly,” Heartbeat Opera’s chamber adaptation of Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly,” at the Baruch Performing Arts Center, on Sunday afternoon. The Trailblazing Efforts of “Indie Opera” 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z On Sunday night at the Hollywood Bowl, Gustavo Dudamel had an excellent cast of compelling singers with healthy voices to turn to in his first time conducting Puccini’s opera. Puccini extreme: Dudamel's gloriously pessimistic 'Tosca' an indictment on the appeal of fascism 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z Howard’s proposal last September during the curtain call after Puccini’s “Tosca” in San Francisco was captured on video and made headlines. For soprano Ailyn Perez, new opera roles and new marriage 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z The night before, the two had performed in Barvikha, a town of villas and luxury boutiques near Moscow, singing works by Verdi and Puccini before an audience of wealthy Russians. The Netrebko Question 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z True to Gozzi, Puccini was evoking stock types out of commedia dell’arte. Review: The Met’s ‘Turandot,’ Strongly Sung, Garishly Staged 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z A Puccini specialist, she sang the role more than 300 times during her career. Opera star Albanese dies aged 105 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z And, like Puccini’s treacly western, it takes place in the heart of the California Gold Rush. Review: John Adams’s Newest Opera Returns to the Gold Mines 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z Operas range from Rossini and Mozart to Puccini and Verdi, and the ballet repertory encompasses major Russian and French works, among others. Music and Dance: A Bastion of Classical Repertory on the Asian Steppe 2011-06-07T11:30:06Z The passions ring absolutely true despite their unlikely setting and storyline, which Puccini adapted from David Belasco's play, "The Girl of the Golden West." Hints of tarnish on Lyric's 'Golden West' 2011-01-24T00:43:00Z Photograph: Robert Workman "Paris is the city of desire," exclaims the naive juvenile tenor in Puccini's La rondine as he arrives in the metropolis, where he hopes to be corrupted. La princesse jaune/La colombe; La rondine – review 2013-07-13T23:05:23Z Its dark, sensual warmth is ideal for Puccini. Music Review | 'La Boh?me: The Gang?s All Here: Mimi, Rodolfo and Zeffirelli 2010-02-22T06:01:00Z While preconceptions of Asians having lighter voices still exist, He defies that with a voice that’s proved to be well suited for the heavy roles of Puccini. Soprano He Hui Is Blazing a Trail for China's Opera Singers 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z So far only the Guinness box presents all the right clues suggesting an encounter with Puccini. Classical: Puccini Opera Echoes a Music Box at the Morris Museum 2012-06-17T01:03:03Z It was an epic night: a new Puccini opera starring Caruso, conducted by Toscanini, directed by Belasco. When Puccini Came, Saw and Conquered New York City 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z The auditorium lights dimmed, and the cast and crew of Cincinnati Opera’s new production of Puccini’s “Madame Butterfly” anxiously took their places. Reimagining ‘Madame Butterfly,’ With Asian Creators at the Helm 2023-07-24T04:00:00Z Puccini’s trilogy returns to the house where it had its premiere 100 years ago next month. 6 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z Here was a work specifically inspired by Puccini’s “Bohème,” also a tale of young artists struggling with love affairs, poverty and disease. Opera? Musical? Please Respect the Difference 2011-07-09T03:30:34Z Puccini devotees will be interested to find this ends with the singers repeating endlessly “Love is everything!” 2010-02-03T22:06:00Z Emmanuel Villaume, the last conductor standing at the end of the train of withdrawals, does not go for the obvious in his conducting of Puccini’s volatile music. Review: The Met Opera’s ‘Tosca’ Overcomes Months of Chaos 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z The broad strokes and bald statements don’t recede, exactly, but they’re like the manipulations of a Puccini opera, so skillful that it seems churlish to object. ‘Christodora’: A powerful novel about the AIDS crisis and its legacy 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z Puccini did not speak English, which sometimes left him feeling isolated, and he loathed the cold. When Puccini Came, Saw and Conquered New York City 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z “It will be an opera immersed in the contemporary world, the present cultural and political struggles represented through Puccini’s story.” Chinese artist Ai Weiwei turns to opera with 'Turandot' 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z It's next to the place where Giacomo Puccini composed many of his most famous operas. Revel in opera in Italy 2010-07-25T04:46:00Z His Swiss training had emphasized musical restraint; for him and his compatriots, he said, Puccini’s emotional excesses were unpalatable. Obituaries: Hugues Cu?nod Dies at 108; Versatile, Light-Voiced Tenor 2010-12-08T04:29:00Z The gaudy Orientalism of another Puccini crowd-pleaser, “Turandot,” set in an imaginary ancient China and featuring three ministers named Ping, Pang and Pong, has also been criticized. A Radical Redo for ‘Madama Butterfly’ — to Save It? 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z The boos heard 'round the world on opening night were mostly gone as "Tosca" reappeared at the Metropolitan Opera with a new cast that turned Puccini's melodrama into a feast of great singing. New cast enlivens Met's reviled 'Tosca' 2010-04-15T07:00:00Z With just 16 days to prepare a major Puccini part for an important new production, Mr. Alagna, who had been appearing in “Pagliacci” at the Met, agreed to take it on. In Met’s ‘Manon Lescaut,’ Classic Love Story Gets Noir Twist 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z To hear Puccini’s score as rife with awkward evocations of Asian exotica and stereotypes is, to me, unfair. Review: The Met’s ‘Turandot,’ Strongly Sung, Garishly Staged 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z So it’s quite unrecognizable if you don’t know the Puccini well, but I felt that in that way it’s related to the Puccini, and it also became new, just like “M. Butterfly” itself. The Composer Huang Ruo on Illusion and Betrayal in ‘M. Butterfly’ 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z As his words explore the complicated, often harsh truths about life and relationships, his swelling ballads convey an unalloyed romantic yearning in the harmonic language of Puccini. Music: The Unmistakable Sensibility of Sondheim 2010-04-30T23:09:00Z There were plenty of big Puccini moments with soaring lyricism. Music Review: Fresh Take on ?Madama Butterfly? at Santa Fe Opera 2010-07-26T22:37:00Z Gatti-Casazza stacked the deck by offering the tenor Enrico Caruso as the male lead and Belasco himself to supervise the production, along with all the creature comforts Puccini could want. When Puccini Rode Tall In the Saddle 2010-12-03T19:38:00Z The conductor Ion Marin was sensitive to the musical complexities that Puccini sneaks below the surface of this deceptively lightweight score, his attempt to write the Italian opera equivalent of a wry Viennese operetta. Music Review: Kristine Opolais Makes Met Debut in Puccini’s ‘Rondine’ 2013-01-13T21:20:46Z The larger-than-life theatricality and emotionalism of Puccini and Verdi don’t exactly lend themselves to clarifying complex, precise ideas. Hannah Arendt and Walter Benjamin Don’t Talk. They Sing. 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z If Giacomo Puccini, nearly 100 years after his death, could have attended the Metropolitan Opera’s recent New Year’s Eve gala, he surely would have been impressed. Anna Netrebko, Consider New Opera. Please. 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z The recorded program includes arias by Puccini and Massenet, plus works by Handel and Korngold. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy’ and ‘Genius: Aretha’ 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z It was not how she had planned to spend the evening: She was supposed to be nearly 4,000 miles away, at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, headlining in another Puccini opera, “Turandot.” The Netrebko Question 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z Seattle Opera closes its current season with the much-loved Puccini opera "Madame Butterfly" and with something entirely new: a free, live HD simulcast of the opera's opening night on a big screen at KeyArena. See Seattle Opera's 'Madame Butterfly' simulcast for free 2012-04-06T21:20:05Z The result is that this Puccini chestnut tends to get done on a high level but not the highest, with experienced but not starry maestros. Review: In ‘La Bohème’ at the Met, the Star Is in the Pit 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z He added to his portfolio in the late 1920s and had a long, distinguished international career before making his Met debut on March 12, 1987, as the Emperor Altoum in Puccini’s “Turandot.” Obituaries: Hugues Cu?nod Dies at 108; Versatile, Light-Voiced Tenor 2010-12-08T04:29:00Z “Could I have foreseen the sudden collapse of our enemies,” Puccini wrote, “I certainly should have been helping celebrate the glorious victory in New York.” When Puccini Came, Saw and Conquered New York City 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z He’s made his name with comedic and serious rarities alike, but this recent take on Puccini’s bloody shocker shows that his punchy style can work well with the classics, too. A Lot of Opera Is Now Streaming. Here’s Where to Start. 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z Mr. Sharon cited as his model a lineage of opera that stretches back through Stockhausen and Cage, rather than Rossini and Puccini. ‘Hopscotch’ Takes Opera Into the Streets 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z She begins a daily morning routine of practicing, including warming up with scales and working on pieces by Bellini, Rossini, Puccini and other composers. Review: ‘Bel Canto’ Opera Arrives at an Unsettling Time 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z Giacomo Puccini’s “La Bohème,” which she described as “the grandfather of ‘Rent.’” Drama! Divas! Dates! A New Generation of Fans Discovers the Opera 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z I saw several versions of the play, and I often felt it needed to be told in musical form because it was so related to Puccini and to the reversal of “Madama Butterfly.” The Composer Huang Ruo on Illusion and Betrayal in ‘M. Butterfly’ 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z Kim kicked off the season on Aug. 21 with Puccini’s “Tosca,” a warhorse that is a sentimental favorite for the company. New faces, new ambitions as opera houses reopen 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z It was at this home that he demonstrated his affinity with Verdi and Puccini. Charles Mackerras 1925-2010 2010-07-15T10:55:00Z Based on David Belasco's The Girl of the Golden West, the libretto is only mildly mawkish and the orchestral writing, starting with a shocking splayed orchestral chord, is among Puccini's most impassioned. BBC Prom 54; La fanciulla del West; Joyce DiDonato; Simon Keenlyside; Kronos Quartet 2010-08-28T23:06:00Z Puccini’s “Tosca” is everything we want from opera: outsized passions, violence and death, a great diva, an unredeemable villain, and music as heartbreakingly beautiful as the story is intense. Why Seattle Opera’s ‘Tosca’ is worth staying indoors for 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z Luckily the world’s greatest living opera composer at the time, Giacomo Puccini, harbored a keen interest in Americana. When Puccini Rode Tall In the Saddle 2010-12-03T19:38:00Z The theme is a stately, gentle melody that Puccini adapted from a Chinese folk tune. Anthony Tommasini’s Musical Moments 2012-11-16T16:10:59Z The Metropolitan Opera held a New Year’s Eve gala on Dec. 31 with Puccini operas, a dinner and fireworks. Divas and Debutantes 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z Some of these operas contain moments of music that surpass anything written by Puccini, a man whose shadow many of these composers lived in for most of their careers. Raiders of the lost arias 2011-07-21T20:31:00Z The high-ceilinged dining room is decorated with yellowed paintings of Roman landmarks, including the Castel Sant’Angelo, prominent in the Puccini opera for which the place is named. Bites : Restaurant Report: Tosca Cafe in San Francisco 2014-01-28T20:56:26Z Prince Poppycock The flamboyant former “America’s Got Talent” contestant’s stage show features original songs alongside the music of Queen, Puccini and David Bowie. L.A. theater openings, Jan. 29-Feb. 5: Alan Cumming, Bernadette Peters and more 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z He opened his tenure with the director Anthony Minghella’s cinematic and highly stylized rendering of Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly,” introduced at the English National Opera. Peter Gelb?s Tenure at Metropolitan Opera 2011-11-25T15:13:27Z “That’s kind of the relationship I’m having with Puccini’s music right now.” This Summer, Opera Grapples With Race 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z “The music penetrates you,” says executive producer Edwin R. Josue, comparing de Leon’s score to Puccini. ‘Noli Me Tangere’ Filipino opera will tell moving tale at Kennedy Center In place of those typical Puccini melodic outbursts that grab you and won’t let go, this ingenious score folds refined lyrical strands into a nearly through-composed musical fabric. Music Review: Puccini?s Western Seeks Lyrical Gold 2010-12-07T17:10:00Z For the blessings and challenges it has brought us, let’s have, in the immortal phrase from “Fanciulla,” a “whiskey per tutti” in honor of Puccini’s American opera and the progressive spirit it represents. When Puccini Rode Tall In the Saddle 2010-12-03T19:38:00Z Puccini, its apotheosis, had died in 1924; in the conflict’s wake, modernism ruled European music, and a certain strand of lyric theater was over. Review: An Opera Sings of a World on the Verge of Ending 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z Music is also central in this highbrow city, the birthplace of Giacomo Puccini. 6 Places in Europe Offering Shelter From the Crowds 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z The superb Met chorus has Puccini’s score and Zeffirelli’s staging down pat; the singing in the big ensemble scenes was glorious. Review: The Met’s ‘Turandot,’ Strongly Sung, Garishly Staged 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z Both casts deliver Puccini’s classic with passion in a beautiful setting. Review: Seattle Opera’s ‘Madame Butterfly’ packs an emotional punch 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z It’s fair to say that no production in the Metropolitan Opera’s history has been more vexed than the new staging of Puccini’s “Tosca” that opened on New Year’s Eve. Review: The Met Opera’s ‘Tosca’ Overcomes Months of Chaos 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z In other words, Puccini and his librettists engaged in an act of cultural appropriation. Cultural controversy swirls around Seattle Opera’s ‘Madame Butterfly’ 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z Rent 20th anniversary tour of the rock musical inspired by Puccini’s “La Bohème”; recommended for ages 13 and up. L.A. theater openings, Jan. 22-29: 'Moby Dick' and more 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z Apart from the works of Puccini and a handful of others, most of the movement's products have vanished from the stage, and this rare revival is surely the most obscure so far. I Gioielli della Madonna – review 2013-07-25T10:00:00Z There is, of course, Morse's love of opera, although in time, the character would develop a greater fondness for Wagner than Puccini. PBS brings back beloved Inspector Morse — as a young man 2012-06-29T19:10:04Z This year’s Bard Music Festival, two weekends of performances and discussion at Bard College here, is devoted to “Puccini and His World.” For Many, Opera and Puccini Are One (Trump’s Campaign Knows the Appeal) 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z But his reputation didn’t shield him from controversy in the United States, where he is best known for his production of Puccini’s “Tosca” for the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 2009. Luc Bondy, Swiss-Born Theater and Opera Director, Dies at 67 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z It gives power to Asian characters instead of Westerners, and the fluidity in gender roles counters sexist tropes in Puccini’s opera. The Composer Huang Ruo on Illusion and Betrayal in ‘M. Butterfly’ 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z But, as Davis noted, "no Verdi or Puccini at all!" Lyric Opera staging 2 epics in 1 season 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z Every summer, a Puccini festival is held next door in an open-air theater. Revel in opera in Italy 2010-07-25T04:46:00Z Festival highlights include performances of rarely played Puccini orchestral and chamber works and of his early opera, “Le Villi.” Bard Music Festival Tackles the Puccini Paradox 1459-08-02T05:00:00Z Puccini described the evening as a “lynching” and withdrew the work, vowing never again to perform at La Scala. Puccini’s ‘Madama Butterfly’ Returns to the Scene of a Disastrous Opening 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z But there will always be Verdi, Puccini, Wagner and others. The Met Is Planning a Big Bet on Contemporary Opera 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z Also showing this season in Zurich - Verdi's "I Masnadieri" and Puccini's "Girl of the Golden West." Review:"Williams Tell" celebrates all things Swiss 2010-12-10T12:08:00Z A jacket photograph for the disk release shows a bearded Wainwright dressed to suggest a famous portrait of Verdi, with his husband, the arts administrator Jörn Weisbrodt, attired like a dashing young Puccini. Listening Booth: Operas by Rufus Wainwright and Hans Abrahamsen 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z For Puccini, it offered a chance to shine after a painful period of his life. When Puccini Came, Saw and Conquered New York City 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z You could feel trepidation at the Metropolitan Opera on Wednesday as the audience took its seats for Puccini’s “La Fanciulla del West.” Review: Jonas Kaufmann, Back at the Met, Is Good, Not Great 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z Borrowing from Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly,” the play is inspired by a true story, with details updated since its premiere in 1988. Your Week in Culture: Clive Owen, St. Vincent, ‘Marshall’ Before the Supreme Court 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z There was nothing restricted about a singer whose career embraced operas ranging from Handel's Alcina to Puccini's Turandot and who took Beethoven's Choral Symphony and Noël Coward songs in her stride with equal nonchalance. Dame Joan Sutherland obituary 2010-10-11T17:56:00Z As a kind of preview of the coming Bard Music Festival, Puccini and His World, he is leading his American Symphony Orchestra in a new production of “Iris” at Bard. ‘Sweeney Todd’ and ‘The Crucible’: Not New, but Darkly Up-to-Date 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z Ms. Fleming said that she had programmed both the Catalani and Puccini arias in her concerts — and wondered if she would have had they not been in the films. Opera in Film Takes On a New Note in ‘Bel Canto’ (It’s Not Evil) 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z Goerke and Eyvazov sang so well that I was swept up in Puccini’s music during their scenes, despite the silvery extravagance of the imperial palace, here so bright you almost squint. Review: The Met’s ‘Turandot,’ Strongly Sung, Garishly Staged 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z The playing is vivid — strings lush and articulate, winds restrained, brasses secure — with a precision and transparency that emphasize Puccini’s debt to the adventurous instrumental textures, harmonies and gauzy exoticism of Stravinsky, Debussy and Strauss. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z Ms. Scappucci, who makes her debut with the Los Angeles Opera this spring in Puccini’s “La Bohème,” led an exacting yet stylishly supple account of this work. Review: Bellini’s ‘La Sonnambula,’ Sung by Promising Young Voices 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z With Puccini you don’t need to know; you hardly want to. For Many, Opera and Puccini Are One (Trump’s Campaign Knows the Appeal) 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z In fact, Puccini was already far removed from the social context that gave rise to the opera’s literary source, a 1731 novel by Abbé Prévost. ‘Manon Lescaut’ at the Met Opera: A Courtesan in Need of Context 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z “It is going to be made even more special by performing with my husband, tenor Yusif Eyvazov, in the same Puccini masterpiece that marked our first encounter at the Rome Opera in 2014.” Anna Netrebko, Shunned in Much of the West, to Sing in Monte Carlo 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z Watching Belasco's short play in London in 1900, Puccini reportedly was deeply moved — despite his tenuous grasp of the English language. Opera preview: 'Madama Butterfly' at Seattle Opera 2012-04-25T20:40:08Z At both the Bavarian State Opera this December and at the Met, from May 26 to June 9, he will take on the classic role of Rodolfo in Puccini’s “La Bohème.” An American Tenor Is ‘at Home Everywhere’ 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z Urgently conducted by Lorenzo Viotti and well sung by a youthful cast, Puccini’s thriller here moves with a swiftness that anticipates the slasher flick. A Lot of Opera Is Now Streaming. Here’s Where to Start. 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z Puccini alienated a series of librettists as he kept demanding changes in the text trying to get it right. In Met’s ‘Manon Lescaut,’ Classic Love Story Gets Noir Twist 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z “Phantom” may not be Puccini, but its score — thick and lavishly orchestrated — shares more with opera than most Broadway musicals. Andrew Lloyd Webber Brings the Music of the Night Back to ‘Phantom’ 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z Puccini’s sumptuous music, potently allusive and ideally flowing as if unspooled in an endless thread, is the most obvious and unshakable asset in any account of “Butterfly.” Music Review: ?Madama Butterfly? at the Metropolitan Opera - Review 2011-12-08T22:28:07Z What worked in Puccini works in "Two Women." San Francisco Opera looks backward with the World War II-set 'Two Women' 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z The version Gheorghiu has slithered into this time is dangerously décolleté, which gives the efforts of Puccini's menopausal heroine to fascinate her much younger boyfriend a certain autobiographical pathos. La princesse jaune/La colombe; La rondine – review 2013-07-13T23:05:23Z A Met Debut Helps Elevate Puccini’s Stepchild of an Opera Often when a young singer makes a Metropolitan Opera debut, the engagement is in effect a tryout for potential future assignments. Music Review: Kristine Opolais Makes Met Debut in Puccini’s ‘Rondine’ 2013-01-13T21:20:46Z Mr. Vernatter explained that Puccini had never set foot in Japan when he saw David Belasco’s one-act play “Madame Butterfly: A Tragedy of Japan” and decided to write an operatic version. Saying Yes to Puccini, but No to His Stereotypes 2022-07-02T04:00:00Z The composer likes to talk about his love for Puccini — and you can hear some of that in Young Emile’s Act I aria “What Makes a Man a Man?” ‘Hey, Mr. Living Composer’: ‘Champion’ Takes Shape at the Met 2023-04-09T04:00:00Z She went out there, sang some Puccini, and left the nation in shock. Aretha Franklin Had Power. Did We Truly Respect It? 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z From ancient Greece to the moon by way of Monteverdi, Mahler and Puccini: Wednesday evening’s concert by the Dolce Suono Ensemble at Roulette in Brooklyn drew a wide arc. Music Review: Dolce Suono Ensemble and Lucy Shelton at Roulette 2013-12-10T18:21:41Z Pouring his heart into the powerful Puccini aria, his voice soared into the night. Portrait of a young singer on the cusp of stardom 2011-05-28T22:31:06Z Things kick off in August with Puccini's "Turandot," the tale of a hardhearted Chinese princess and the man who's infatuated with her. Seattle Opera's next season: 'Turandot,' 'Fidelio' 2011-12-29T21:18:06Z Yet curiously, his set lurched in fits and starts, each rousing Verdi or Puccini aria dispatched with evident concentration and sincerity, followed by awkward inertia until the next selection commenced. Music Review: Star Tenor Starts a Tour, Minus the Muppets 2010-12-03T17:16:00Z The saloon-set first act was curiously lugubrious, Puccini's masterful use of orchestral colour in setting the scene not entirely apparent. La Fanciulla del West 2010-08-25T21:15:00Z The orchestra under Andrew Davis fairly reveled in Puccini's opulent, sophisticated scoring, innovative harmonies and seductive surges of melody tinged with Debussyan whole-tone scales. Hints of tarnish on Lyric's 'Golden West' 2011-01-24T00:43:00Z The Puccini classic “La Bohème” is running through March 24 in the Joan Sutherland Theater. A $1,000 Day in Sydney for $100 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z In the company’s early days, composers like Puccini and Granados roamed its halls; in the 1910s alone, the company gave 15 world premieres. The Met Is Planning a Big Bet on Contemporary Opera 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z Puccini wanted this opera to be cruel, to show the underbelly of society. Prima Donnas 2010-05-13T21:45:00Z Puccini originally intended the piece for Vienna's Carltheater, which wanted an operetta, but he composed it as a comic opera, and World War I caused the premiere to be shifted to Monte Carlo in 1917. Opolais makes winning Met debut in 'La Rondine' 2013-01-14T01:16:04Z The programme includes works by Verdi, Wagner, Mozart and Puccini, and the premiere of a new piece by Tan Dun. Tonight's TV highlights: Placido Domingo Gala 2011-03-18T00:05:00Z But “Voodoo,” dotted with a few gentle, warm arrangements of spirituals, recalls the lyricism of Puccini, Massenet and Gounod more than the through-composed density and leitmotifs of Wagner. Review: ‘Voodoo,’ by Harry Lawrence Freeman, Has First Staging Since 1928 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z Saturday night, however, singing the baritone lead role in Puccini's comic opera for the first time, Domingo sounded as if he could go on forever. L.A. Opera opens 30th season with Plácido Domingo staying busy 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z An epitome of this is Puccini’s “Madame Butterfly,” one of the most beloved and yet most racist of canonical works. Review | A ‘Butterfly’ without the stereotypes takes flight at In Series 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z Puccini’s one complaint about this revival would probably have been that there were no horses at the end. Music Review: Puccini?s Western Seeks Lyrical Gold 2010-12-07T17:10:00Z The three or four-hour operatic scenarios are less approachable to an audience used to those punchier, later Italians, Verdi and Puccini. Monteverdi's Flying Circus 2010-09-17T23:06:00Z She felt that it was a logical fit for her voice — a way to combine her Met history of bel canto works, like Donizetti’s Tudor operas, and verismo classics like Puccini’s “Tosca.” The Met Opera Takes on ‘Medea’ in the Shadow of Maria Callas 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z La Scala General Manager Pereira said the depiction of a suicide was too audacious for the times, but now La Scala is determined to show "this masterpiece in the version as Puccini wanted it." La Scala opens next season with Puccini's 'Madama Butterfly' 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z At the Miss America competition, she sang Puccini’s “Un Bel Di” for the talent competition. Mary Ann Mobley, a Midcentury Miss America and an Actress, Dies at 75 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z Photograph: Tristram Kenton Puccini called it the work of a madman. Stravinsky and the modernism that still stirs 2013-01-03T07:30:01Z This slice of life would become one of the most gripping scenes in Puccini’s pioneering spaghetti western. When Puccini Rode Tall In the Saddle 2010-12-03T19:38:00Z Puccini didn't specify which particular works he considered repulsive. Tosca; La rondine; Arensky Chamber Orchestra ? review 2011-07-16T23:07:14Z In Edinburgh, another orchestra has been in the news for the wrong reasons: that of Scottish Opera, which played in a concert performance of Puccini's La fanciulla del West last Monday. BBC Prom 54; La fanciulla del West; Joyce DiDonato; Simon Keenlyside; Kronos Quartet 2010-08-28T23:06:00Z Last produced here in 2012, this warm, nostalgic evocation of Paris in Puccini’s time is on its seventh pass through the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. L.A. Opera delivers some Parisian déjà vu in 'La Bohème' 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z Amid criticism about cultural appropriation and representation, Seattle Opera takes different tack with Puccini’s popular work. Cultural controversy swirls around Seattle Opera’s ‘Madame Butterfly’ 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z Puccini’s score here is a marvel of sonic perspective. Review: Puccini’s American Opera Needs a New American Vision 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z Upcoming performances include Georges Bizet’s “Carmen” on Nov. 23, and three Puccini operas. 36 Hours in Rijeka, Croatia 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z Puccini trod the same territory with his women. San Francisco Opera looks backward with the World War II-set 'Two Women' 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z Performances of “Turandot” are bedevilled by the problem of the ending, which Puccini tragically did not live to write. Finally, A Non-Embarrassing Classical-Music Scene in a Blockbuster Movie 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z Last year, I made a case for Maria Callas’s 1953 recording of Puccini’s “Tosca” as the greatest all-around recording of any complete opera. Curious About Classical Music? Here’s Where to Start 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z Benzi and the City of London Sinfonia, even in this awkward, partly open-air acoustic, focused on the bold variety of Puccini's score. Madama Butterfly; Cavalleria rusticana; Pagliacci; Pierre-Laurent Aimard – review 2013-06-15T23:05:36Z “Fanciulla,” a tale of hardscrabble miners during the California Gold Rush, is, I’m more convinced at each encounter, one of Puccini’s finest operas. Review: Jonas Kaufmann, Back at the Met, Is Good, Not Great 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z At the Met he was to have led four performances of Puccini’s “Tosca,” starting on Wednesday night, and three performances in May of Berg’s “Lulu,” a work he conducts incomparably. For James Levine, Now May Be a Time to Choose 2010-04-12T22:46:00Z As a composer, he is best remembered for his operas, which take Puccini rather than Wagner or Strauss as a model. D'Albert: Complete Bach Transcriptions/D'Albert: Symphony in F major; Seejungfr?ulein 2010-04-08T22:35:00Z Puccini does something similar in another of my favorite moments, in Act III of “Turandot.” Anthony Tommasini’s Musical Moments 2012-11-16T16:10:59Z Puccini wanted to work with him, Proust admired him and Joyce said he was one of the three most talented writers of the 19th century, alongside Kipling and Tolstoy. The Pike: Gabriele D'Annunzio – Poet, Seducer & Preacher of War by Lucy Hughes-Hallett – review 2013-02-04T07:00:01Z Rising stars in the Opera North Young Artists program will sing in Mozart's " Don Giovanni" and Puccini's " Bohème," performed in the intimate Lebanon Opera House. Summer Stages: Classical 2010-05-07T21:59:00Z In the living room, Nelson watched transfixed at televised scenes from "Turandot," the extravagant Puccini opera set in ancient Peking. Portrait of a young singer on the cusp of stardom 2011-05-28T22:31:06Z Sure, the country served as an imaginary utopian space for European artists like Puccini. Review: Puccini’s American Opera Needs a New American Vision 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z Over a month ago, while she was watching Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly,” a Met employee came into the opera house to tell her that she needed to leave. Never Missing a Curtain This Season, the Met Opera Takes a Final Bow 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z Throughout the eighties, you experimented wildly with genre, everything from Puccini to the Great American Songbook to Mexican canciones. Linda Ronstadt Has Found Another Voice 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z August is the time to celebrate Giacomo Puccini in Tuscany. Thursday’s Digest: A Peruvian Chef in New York and a Food Festival in San Fransisco 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z New York City Opera’s production of Puccini’s “La Fanciulla del West,” which opened on Wednesday at the Rose Theater at Jazz at Lincoln Center, may not be great. Review: A Good-Enough ‘La Fanciulla del West’ at New York City Opera 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z But do we need five Puccini operas in a single Met season to keep him on top? Anna Netrebko, Consider New Opera. Please. 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z The season will open Sept. 6 with an old favorite, Puccini’s “La Fanciulla del West,” at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater. City Opera, No Longer Broke, Will Finally Stage ‘Brokeback Mountain’ 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z Only the music changed, an assemblage of greatest hits by Mozart, Verdi and Puccini. 4 Operas in 48 Hours: A Critic’s Marathon at the Met 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z In a second half of Italian songs, Yoncheva was dreamy in Puccini, though her voice wanted greater size and juiciness to fill out her epic conception of “Canto d’anime.” A Day of Divas 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z “Rent,” based on Puccini’s “La Boheme,” has a challengingly slippery plot to begin with: Perhaps Larson would have refined the structure had he lived to see his show’s official opening. Perspective | ‘Rent’ and I, we’ve been going together for 23 years. And not even ‘Rent: Live’ could break us up. 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z He recalls that in 1965, Gian Carlo Menotti asked him to do “Otello” at the Spoleto Festival, despite the fact that his lyric tenor voice was more suited to Mozart and the lighter Puccini operas. Perspective | Russell Thomas is much more than a black tenor. Now, he’s tackling ‘Otello’ and the field’s stereotypes. 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z Their combined advocacy brought one of Puccini's least performed works back into the repertoire. Tosca; La rondine; Arensky Chamber Orchestra ? review 2011-07-16T23:07:14Z Sung in German translation, this extract from Puccini's dark psychological thriller showcases the baritone alongside his soprano wife Júlia Várady – another great artist. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau: a guide in clips 2012-05-18T16:16:00Z In the great operas of Verdi, Puccini, Strauss and Wagner, Ms. Harteros is as good — as powerful yet lyrical in her singing, as sensitive in her acting — as anyone in the world. What’s Keeping One of Opera’s Greatest Sopranos From Singing? 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z And this is one of Puccini’s most complex and moving scores, with boldly modernist harmonies and hints of Debussy and Richard Strauss deftly folded into the composer’s own voice. Review: A Good-Enough ‘La Fanciulla del West’ at New York City Opera 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z “A Room with a View” is probably best remembered for Lucy and George’s swooning first kiss, set to Puccini, in a field of poppies. James Ivory and the Making of a Historic Gay Love Story 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z At the Met, Exhibit A in the simmering debate over style has been Puccini’s “Tosca.” Hollywood? Nope. The Met Will Do for David McVicar. 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z As one of them, Bonnie Lander relishes the percussiveness of “Passion for Piero, Palladio, Puccini, pasta”; the other, Paul Pinto, gets his turn with the staccato phrasing of “Successful. Super-smart. Sensuous. Sensitive. Cuddly. Affectionate.” Review: An Espionage Opera Remains Enigmatic and Urgent 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z “Girls” is an outright rejection of the romantic West of Puccini, of the hubris of Manifest Destiny, of all the rosy myths you’ve heard about the Golden State. Review: John Adams’s Newest Opera Returns to the Gold Mines 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z The cast is passable but seldom more than that in roles loosely inspired by characters from Puccini’s opera “La Bohème.” | 'Rent': That Ragtag Bohemian Army Returns 2011-08-12T02:01:00Z I used the Puccini motif, and I reversed it. The Composer Huang Ruo on Illusion and Betrayal in ‘M. Butterfly’ 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z In just a few seconds, Puccini has conjured February, frigid and lonely. Review: In ‘La Bohème’ at the Met, the Star Is in the Pit 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z “My grandfather used to hum a bit of Verdi and Puccini, ” says the 34-year-old Mr. Bulgarini, a data scientist by training. How Europe’s Opera Houses Won Over Millennials 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z For 28 dollars, it wasn’t Puccini, but it was certainly entertaining. A $1,000 Day in Sydney for $100 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z They were making way for more Puccini: the evening performance of “Madama Butterfly.” The Met’s Herculean Task: 4 Operas in 48 Hours 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z Market forces, and perhaps personal temperament, placed Puccini and the verismo school at the centre of this recital of tenor favourites. Joseph Calleja – review 2013-01-13T18:45:01Z Would that I could include my beloved Puccini. The Greatest 2011-01-21T14:04:41Z “Fanciulla” has often been treated like lesser Puccini and chuckled over as the first “spaghetti western,” decades before Sergio Leone’s films. Review: A Good-Enough ‘La Fanciulla del West’ at New York City Opera 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z As for adaptation: One secret to success in Sondheim’s book, be it Puccini operas or “Sweeney Todd,” is slender source material. When musicals become operas 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z The musical, dramatic and emotional richness of Puccini’s “La Bohème” emerges anew every time an eager cast, good orchestra and sensitive director present it. What Shouldn’t Change About Classical Music 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z This young German director, whose thought-provoking and vigorously musical productions of everything from Samuel Barber to Puccini have marked her out as one of her generation's most exciting talents, isn't just making her UK debut. Ariadne ducks the bombs at the Glyndebourne festival 2013-05-15T18:00:02Z The agonies and pleasures of “Castor and Patience,” running through July 30 at the Corbett Theater at the School for Creative and Performing Arts, are like those of a less densely orchestrated Puccini. Review: A New Opera Tells an Original Story With an Open Heart 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z There are many, many interesting anecdotes circulating about Puccini’s “Tosca” — which figures since “Tosca” is among the most performed operas in the business. L.A. Opera's 'Tosca': No gimmicks, just some powerhouse singing 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z The mainstage season unfurls with “Madame Butterfly,” by Giacomo Puccini, opening Aug. 5. Seattle Opera’s 2017-18 season to include ‘Butterfly,’ Berlioz and a bilingual show for kids 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z Standing by a piano in his dressing room, he sang bits from other operas, including Puccini’s “Turandot,” which he will perform in Zurich this summer. A Tenor’s Secrets to ‘Lohengrin’: Golf and a Blunt Spouse 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z “There were more performances of this opera in Russia those 18 months than operas of Wagner, Puccini or Verdi.” Stalin Didn’t Like This Opera, but Audiences Still Do 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z Two weeks after that, on March 17 — the day they considered their anniversary — they went to see “Manon Lescaut,” Puccini’s tale of a fatal beauty torn between love and money, at the Metropolitan Opera. Candice Bergen on Love, ‘Murphy Brown’ and an Affinity for Food 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z The Opera Buffs Fall showcase features scenes and arias from Bizet, Mozart, Puccini, Strauss and more. The week ahead in L.A. classical music, Oct. 22-29: Berlioz, Philip Glass and more 2017-10-22T04:00:00Z By featuring “Mo Li Hua”/“Sinfa” in his final opera, Puccini ensured that it would continue to represent China for the next century. Classical: Puccini Opera Echoes a Music Box at the Morris Museum 2012-06-17T01:03:03Z Corti has an affinity with Puccini and a good track record of interesting concert performances in Scotland, so it was surprising that Fanciulla didn't get off to the most promising start. La Fanciulla del West 2010-08-25T21:15:00Z The Albanian soprano, 48, has won over audiences on both sides of the Atlantic with the depth and authenticity of her performances, especially in the realism of “verismo” works by Verdi and Puccini. Ermonela Jaho ‘Can Sing Your Music’ 2022-07-02T04:00:00Z But you can witness for yourself Dudamel’s Puccini prowess next month. Booed in Vienna, Dudamel makes revelatory L.A. Opera debut to frenzied cheers 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z She's also every bit as a tragic a heroine as anything Puccini could have devised. Anna Nicole Smith returns from the dead 2011-02-18T16:19:00Z I don’t know anything about opera, but I do know this would really benefit from an ironic Puccini soundtrack. Donald Trump and Stormy Daniels: brief encounters of the ‘textbook generic’ kind 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z In two days she would sing the title role of Puccini’s “Manon Lescaut” for the first time at the Metropolitan Opera, in what The Times would describe as a “bravura performance.” Anna Netrebko Shops the Way She Sings: Exuberantly 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z Whereas many of his contemporaries focused on a relatively narrow repertoire, the South African felt at home in operas ranging from Puccini to Wagner. South African tenor Johan Botha dies at age 51 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z His inaugural concert will include arias from Wagner and Puccini. Electric conductor 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z And the score is easy to love; like Puccini’s “Turandot,” also from the 1920s, it looks predominantly backward, with occasional glances toward modernism. How a Forgotten Opera Made a Big Comeback 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z Lazaridis and his directors realised that Puccini's operas are emotive precisely because the heroines are tormented by the abuse of power. Stefanos Lazaridis obituary 2010-05-16T17:48:00Z London’s Royal Opera headlined the Olympic Arts Festival with three operas performed in the Dorothy Chandler, including the premiere of a new production of Puccini’s “Turandot” with Domingo. How Plácido Domingo taught L.A. to love opera 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z I knew Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly,” the opera, but I did not know “M. Butterfly.” The Composer Huang Ruo on Illusion and Betrayal in ‘M. Butterfly’ 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z It simultaneously delights and disappoints, a melodic throwback to the era when Puccini and Strauss were composing, with arias and duets and quartets. `Prima Donna' has US premiere at Brooklyn Academy 2012-02-20T16:57:08Z One is the stately, raven-haired New Yorker Catherine Malfitano, who made Puccini's heroine "real" to millions of viewers in the 1992 live telecast from Rome with Placido Domingo, which was shown worldwide. Prima Donnas 2010-05-13T21:45:00Z He is also planning some outreach, including leading students in Puccini’s “Suor Angelica”at Berlin’s Tempelhof, a former airport, and conducting future family concerts. The Berlin Philharmonic’s Anti-Anti-Maestro 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z That this once-popular Italian-American composer rejected progressive trends in favor of time-tested formulas proved by Puccini, Mascagni and other Italians at the start of the 20th century seems to work against him now. Music Review: New-World Tale Steeped in Old-World Tradition 2011-02-25T22:34:50Z It was a gift to the Met’s reigning prima donna, the soprano Anna Netrebko, and featured her in acts from three Puccini operas, conducted by the company’s music director, Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Review: Anna Netrebko Rings in the Year With a Met Gala 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z Because of Puccini’s unfamiliarity with the culture, “the Japanese characters in his opera come off as caricatures,” Mr. Vernatter said. Saying Yes to Puccini, but No to His Stereotypes 2022-07-02T04:00:00Z Since then, the promotional shorthand for this take on Puccini’s repertory staple has held that it is cinematic — a worthy extension of Mr. Minghella’s work in film. Review: ‘Madama Butterfly,’ Without Its Flesh-and-Blood Intensity 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z Through the 1990s, he worked with a pool of studio musicians to create albums of rearranged songs by Prince, Sting, the Beatles and Carole King, as well as a jazz setting of Puccini’s “Turandot.” Bob Belden, Jazz Saxophonist and Historian of the Music, Dies at 58 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z But, she said, she didn’t feel emotional about music until she was 12, when a school librarian lent her a recording of Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly.” A Conductor on a Mission to Help Ukraine 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z In writing about opera he sometimes made predictions that were not borne out — that Puccini’s “Turandot” and Strauss’s “Salome” would disappear from the repertory, for example. Joseph Kerman, Colorful Critic of Musicology, Dies at 89 2014-03-25T04:23:17Z Hwang’s smash exposé of empire and race, gender and domination, could always be read as a reflection on the Puccini and the biases it still perpetuates as well as a gloss on the real-life tale. Review: ‘M. Butterfly’ Metamorphoses Again, as an Opera 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z Audiences really responded to its updated, site-specific take on Puccini's tale of bohemian love and suffering – pub opera can do claustrophobic garrets much more evocatively than opulent Covent Garden. Small pub, big opera 2010-10-18T15:01:00Z Called “Girls of the Golden West,” the work in part references Puccini’s “The Girl of the Golden West” but will be a deeper exploration of California’s roots that, Sellars feels, haven’t been adequately communicated before. At 29, this 'El Niño' singer is the buzz of California's opera world 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z My contribution amounts to about four and a half minutes, barely a third of what Franco Alfano provided for Puccini’s “Turandot.” A Beethoven Aria Was Lost. I Filled In the Missing Pages. 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z At first glance, there’s nothing conspicuously different about the Royal Opera House’s revival of its 2002 production of Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly.” Saying Yes to Puccini, but No to His Stereotypes 2022-07-02T04:00:00Z Some stuffy critics once carped that a few of Webber themes sounded like Puccini, which got him forever branded as derivative. Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita: One Sings, the Other Doesn't 2012-04-10T12:00:32Z “Unlike Puccini’s ‘Tosca,’ ” an essay on the gallery’s website explains, “the exhibition’s narrative outcome is ultimately uncertain.” ‘Ernest Hemingway: Between Two Wars’ Arriving at Morgan Library 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z Puccini’s “La Bohème,” a natural for young people, and Strauss’s “Die Fledermaus,” an operetta with a cynical adult edge to its humor, are this year’s offerings. Classical Music Listings for July 8-14 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z The company’s first season in its new home began with Puccini’s lavish “Turandot.” Music Review: ?Cos? Fan Tutte? at Lyric Opera of Kansas City - Review 2011-11-14T22:14:30Z Ms. Radvanovsky, a house favorite who won the Met’s National Council Auditions in 1995 and was in its Lindemann Young Artist Development program, was mostly thought of as a Verdi and Puccini soprano. Sondra Radvanovsky, Opera Royalty, Takes On Donizetti’s Triple Crown 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z But he could learn a thing or two from Puccini’s streamlined storytelling. Music Review: Premiere of Wolfgang Rihm?s ?Dionysos? at Salzburg 2010-08-01T22:45:00Z Why else would “Goon” use music from Puccini’s “Turandot” to underscore critical dramatic moments? Movie Review: ?Goon,? Directed by Michael Dowse 2012-03-29T21:23:35Z Puccini's operatic take on the wild west has never made it into the standard repertoire, although the Royal dusts off its venerable 1970s production every few years. La Fanciulla del West 2010-08-25T21:15:00Z New Year’s Eve, in recent years the occasion for a new production of a full work, will bring a Puccini gala — an act each from three operas — featuring Anna Netrebko. The Met Opera’s New Season: What Our Critics Want to See 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z Whatever the reason, even though Puccini’s “Bohème” had its American premiere here in 1897, Los Angeles has never really been an town. Music Review: ‘Don Giovanni,’ Los Angeles Philharmonic and Gustavo Dudamel 2012-05-27T22:36:40Z He didn’t bring an unusual interpretive approach to Puccini’s familiar score. Review: ‘Tosca’ Catches Fire at the Met Opera 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z With his dark-hued voice and formidable technique he now apparently can sing Wagner, Verdi, Puccini and French opera with equal flair. New cast enlivens Met's reviled 'Tosca' 2010-04-15T07:00:00Z Music in “Fella” isn’t just ornament; it’s oxygen, the way it is in operas by Puccini, Strauss and even Wagner. Theater Review: ‘The Most Happy Fella’ Is Revived at City Center 2014-04-03T23:17:30Z Much of the vocal writing recalls Massenet, sometimes Puccini or Strauss, while the overloaded orchestral textures, containing everything from Wagner to Weill, churn away below, oblivious to what the vocal lines imply. Prima Donna 2010-04-13T20:35:00Z Consider the tubercular waifs of Puccini’s “La Bohème” burning manuscripts to stay warm in their Paris garrets. How artists became capitalist 'foot soldiers' in the gentrification wars: Case study, Boyle Heights 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z The production runs in repertory with “La Bohème,” Puccini’s tragic tale of love and death in the slums. Opera, Ballet and More Treats for Fall: Global Arts Guide 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z In the fall of 2019, the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto put on an updated performance of another Puccini opera, “Turandot,” about a Chinese princess who murders her suitors. Saying Yes to Puccini, but No to His Stereotypes 2022-07-02T04:00:00Z It was a true realisation of what Puccini wanted. How we made … Tosca (1964) 2012-07-23T17:00:02Z He sings arias and excerpts from 11 of the 12 Puccini operas, including “Le Villi” and “Edgar,” the obvious omission being the all-female “Suor Angelica.” Classical Playlist: Gabrieli, Bach, 'Distant Voices' and More 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z Like Debussy, who had an epiphany when he attended an 1889 exposition of Asian arts and culture in Paris, Puccini was genuinely excited by Chinese culture. Review: The Met’s ‘Turandot,’ Strongly Sung, Garishly Staged 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z She went on to perform 199 times at the Metropolitan Opera, performing all the major Verdi roles, as well as roles from Mozart, Puccini and others. Joel, Santana to receive Kennedy Center Honors 2013-09-12T16:31:51Z Score a “vincerò” for Puccini, then — with another sure to follow next weekend, when the emerging director R. B. Schlather tackles the composer’s unfinished final work, “Turandot,” complete with Mr. Trump’s favorite aria. For Many, Opera and Puccini Are One (Trump’s Campaign Knows the Appeal) 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z Puccini’s technique is so nearly invisible that it resists analysis. For Many, Opera and Puccini Are One (Trump’s Campaign Knows the Appeal) 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z One role she especially regrets wasn’t right for her is Puccini’s “Madame Butterfly.” Soprano Hei-Kyung Hong extends her run of Mimis at the Met 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z The setting of “The Girl of the Golden West” fueled Puccini’s ever-deepening absorption with ambience. When Puccini Rode Tall In the Saddle 2010-12-03T19:38:00Z The state choir's songbook includes Monteverdi, Puccini and Bach, but the Creole Choir is Chavez's attempt to honour her own family traditions. The Creole Choir of Cuba: the a cappella aid agency 2010-08-19T21:15:00Z The opera ends so very badly that Puccini pessimistically questions whether political sacrifice in the face of fascism makes any sense at all. Puccini extreme: Dudamel's gloriously pessimistic 'Tosca' an indictment on the appeal of fascism 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z “I do not think of them!” was Puccini’s reply. When Puccini Came, Saw and Conquered New York City 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z Given that Sato comes from a society in which Asians are in the majority, she examines Puccini’s intentions from a different perspective than that of Asian Americans who are in the minority. Cultural controversy swirls around Seattle Opera’s ‘Madame Butterfly’ 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z “It’s something that I love. You like to think that Verdi, Puccini, Wagner will still be around 100 years from now for people to enjoy, the way it is now.” Met’s Labor Woes Divide Opera Fans as Well as Participants 2014-08-10T04:00:00Z Last January, the reorganized company, under its general director, Michael Capasso, made a tentative comeback with an uneven production of Puccini’s “Tosca.” Review: Signs of Rebirth at New York City Opera 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z At a press launch for the new season, one reporter challenged the institution over the programme, noting that almost half of the performances stemmed from three composers - Verdi, Puccini and Rossini. Woolf ballet set for Royal Opera 2014-03-31T13:18:38Z As the Duchess of Krakenthorp, a role often lent to legendary divas, the great soprano Kiri Te Kanawa simmered with righteous indignation, interpolating an aria from Puccini’s “Edgar” for good measure. Music Review: Donizetti?s ?Fille du R?giment? at the Met - Review 2011-12-13T23:22:49Z Franklin: I love the melodies, and I find that without even knowing who the composer is, I seem to gravitate to Puccini melodies. Aretha Franklin does "own thing" with new album 2010-03-19T21:54:00Z Rossini is also a tougher vocal assignment than Puccini, and though all the voices are strong – even a bit fierce in this tiny space – not all negotiate their ornate lines with enough precision. The Barber of Seville (or Salisbury) ? review 2010-10-19T11:58:00Z “There is no death, no blood, as there are in typical Puccini operas,“ he said. When Puccini Rode Tall In the Saddle 2010-12-03T19:38:00Z Granted, this Met season has been unusually narrow: In 2015-16, 71 percent of performances have been of operas by Puccini, Verdi, Donizetti or Rossini. The Met Opera Is Struggling. How Can It Fill Those Empty Seats? 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z Backstage at the Metropolitan Opera, before the curtain rose on Monday on a revival of Puccini’s “La Bohème,” a donkey in a pink jester’s hat waited patiently for her cue. Enter Stage Left: A Donkey Debuts at the Met Opera 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z Much of this is because of Puccini’s genius for emotional immediacy, but the performance also featured a strong cast, sound direction and acute, delicate conducting by the festival’s music director, Joseph Colaneri. ‘An American Tragedy’ and More at Glimmerglass 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z Puccini’s “La Rondine” was a grand, nearly thwarted experiment: The opera marked the composer’s first foray into the lighter, commercially viable form of operetta that he generally shunned. Performance Guide 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z Seattle Opera has also cast him in works by Gounod, Bizet and Puccini. Beethoven's Ninth closes out 2011 at SSO 2011-12-23T07:47:28Z Puccini’s opera shows a submissive, young Asian woman who will do everything — even change her faith — to be put in a cage, to serve as someone’s wife and even bear a child. The Composer Huang Ruo on Illusion and Betrayal in ‘M. Butterfly’ 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z Four sopranos were arrayed around the space, singing Puccini. Douglas Gordon: Tracks of my tears 2011-02-08T21:46:00Z But he brings abundant lyricism and exciting ardor to this intelligent program of arias and scenes from almost every Puccini opera, including seldom-heard excerpts from “Le Villi” and “Edgar.” The Best Classical Music Recordings of 2015 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z It’s been a long time since I’ve heard Puccini’s score so freshly played. Review: In Her Met Debut, a Conductor Leads a Fresh ‘La Bohème’ 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z Puccini’s romantic tragedy will make its Capitol Theatre debut in Sydney, with Brian Castles-Onion conducting the Opera Australia Orchestra and Chorus. A Fall Season of Debuts, Returns and Farewells 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z Puccini’s orchestration is skilled and well suited to the purpose of supporting the voices, but “La Bohème” is no orchestral showpiece, as Mr. Rizzi seemed determined to make it. Review: ‘La Bohème,’ in All Its Excessive Glory 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z "You don't have that in Verdi or Puccini." Male soprano stars in "forgotten" Italian opera 2010-09-24T13:07:00Z “For a complete novice, I would choose one of the real popular Puccini operas,” Mr. Montrone said. Season Tickets, for Love of Sport, Culture or Comfort 2012-10-16T22:30:00Z Minnie, the fearless title character of “Fanciulla” and one of the few Puccini heroines left breathing at the final curtain, spawned a line of similarly strong, feisty, unorthodox American heroines. When Puccini Rode Tall In the Saddle 2010-12-03T19:38:00Z But he’s scheduled for four performances of this heartfelt Puccini western, starting on Oct. Classical Fall Preview: Debuts, Premieres, a New Philharmonic Maestro 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z Finally, we will never know exactly what Puccini had in mind for the development and resolution of Turandot's role, because he died before he could complete the opera, in 1924. 'Turandot' lures opera newbies and Puccini fans 2012-07-25T21:50:04Z He also conducts revivals of Massenet’s “Werther” and Puccini’s “Turandot,” which will mark the Met’s first regular Sunday performance on Oct. Met Opera to hire all-black chorus for ‘Porgy and Bess’ 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z At this point, however, she doesn't quite have the visceral power or cutting edge required to soar above the heavily orchestrated climaxes that Puccini wrote for his heroine. Soprano Martinez tries out "Butterfly" wings 2010-10-23T18:16:00Z We talked about books we had just read — we both loved "Educated" — and we both loved opera, particularly Verdi and Puccini, and certain country music. A love affair in life's last act 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z The audience subtly swayed as they played music by Mendelsohn, Puccini and Todd Mason, often with their eyes closed and heads back, overcome with emotion and soaking in the echoing sounds. One of the most magnificent concert venues in L.A. is the dome of this 100-inch telescope 2023-08-21T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, modern opera divas continued to perform and command worship across the globe, with Maria Callas's performances in works such Puccini's Tosca and Verdi's La Traviata becoming legendary in the arts world. Rihanna, Lizzo and Marilyn Monroe shine in V&A's Diva exhibition 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z Less than a minute after she launched into her first aria, from Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly,” the lights went out. Irma Capece Minutolo, Opera Singer and Partner to Exiled King, Dies at 87 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z Now Huang composes Western operas that center Asian characters and stories like “M. Butterfly,” which upends the plot of Puccini’s classic opera, and “Bound,” which explores the second-generation American immigrant experience. Seattle Opera: The true story of a teenage girl jailed for truancy 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z The house said Scappucci will be involved in works by Verdi and Puccini along with bel canto. Speranza Scappucci to become Royal Opera’s principal guest conductor 2023-06-05T04:00:00Z Subbaraman agrees, describing the music as “Hindustani meets Puccini but in a modern lens. It’s epic; it’s beautiful; it’s melodic.” Seattle Opera’s ‘A Thousand Splendid Suns’: How a new opera is born 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z He’ll listen to Italian soprano Renata Tebaldi singing Puccini when he makes dinner for his wife and three kids, for instance. From "Armageddon Time" to arias: Hollywood filmmaker James Gray on directing his debut opera 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z In director Christopher Honoré’s startlingly original production of Puccini’s opera at the 2019 Aix-en-Provence Festival, Blue starred as a young singer learning the role and captured the audience’s imagination in a new and moving way. Review: An L.A. Opera 'Tosca' that's more than it seems 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z Dancers’ quick, sharp movements clash against one another, embodying the tensions between worlds in a piece loosely based on Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly.” How Micaela Taylor turned pandemic stillness into a creative explosion at the Wallis 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z Conductor Carlo Rizzi — who recently embarked on another fall production at the Met, Puccini’s “Tosca” — drew fierce energy from the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, which played with a bit more acid than I’m accustomed to. Review | 3 operas in 3 days? With Met’s powerful fall trio, it was energizing. 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z The fabric has been equally popular among 14th-century merchants and Florentine lords, 19th-century composers — Verdi and Puccini among them — and movie stars known for their quintessential style, Audrey Hepburn topping the list. Can an Iconic Italian Wool Survive a Changing Economy? 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z “Verdi has been for years and years, has been performed like a sort of parody of the verismo, like a bad Puccini,” he said. Muti’s legacy: respect composers, reject revisionists 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z Puccini, however, was in it for the sex. Review: An L.A. Opera 'Tosca' that's more than it seems 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z Alexa Puccini was just a few days into her freshman year at Iowa, working out with a couple other members of the women’s swimming and diving team. Iowa swimmers wondered if Title IX suit was ‘going to work’ 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z Ms. Musk, named after Puccini’s opera, studied film at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Forget Twitter. This Musk Is Into ‘Toe Curling Yumminess.’ 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z Such was the case with a supposed 1906 first edition of “Madame Butterfly,” purportedly signed and dedicated by the composer, Giacomo Puccini, which a reader of The Chicago Tribune asked Mr. Coover to authenticate. Christopher Coover, Auction Expert on the Printed Word, Dies at 72 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z The soprano singer will be replaced by Ukrainian singer Liudmyla Monastyrska in Puccini’s "Turandot" for five performances from April 30 to May 14, including a May 7 performance broadcast to theaters worldwide. Russian soprano Anna Netrebko out at the Met Opera 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z The superstar soprano Anna Netrebko, who has ties to Mr. Putin, is scheduled to appear at the Met in Puccini’s “Turandot” beginning on April 30. Vladimir Potanin, Russian Oligarch, Steps Down as Guggenheim Trustee 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z “It was very, very emotional. I just couldn’t believe it. … I’m like, this cannot be real,” Puccini said. Iowa swimmers wondered if Title IX suit was ‘going to work’ 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z Star soprano Anna Netrebko, who is scheduled to perform at the Met in Puccini’s “Turandot” in April, has tried to distance herself from the Russian invasion. Invasion Brings Russia Global Repudiation With Cold War Echoes 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z Performing to music from the Puccini opera "La Bohème," Chen opened with a massive quad toe loop and landed the triple axel that often gives him problems. Nathan Chen, US lead team figure skating at Beijing Olympics 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z Performing to music from the Puccini opera “La Bohème,” Chen opened with a massive quad toe loop and landed the triple axel that often gives him problems. Nathan Chen, US lead team figure skating at Beijing Olympics 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z One can’t, however, fault the soaring music, which features a kind of opera’s greatest hits from the likes of Puccini, Verdi, Mozart, Donizetti and others. Review: 'Falling for Figaro' fails to hit the high (or even so-so) notes 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z In the interim, Puccini and a few other athletes had sued the school over an alleged Title IX violation. Iowa swimmers wondered if Title IX suit was ‘going to work’ 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z Mission InspirEd events co-director Richard Yang said Isabella Puccini’s black-and-white photograph titled “Alone,” of a crouched figure in a barren landscape of crumbling earth, captured how some students are struggling with isolation. WATCH: Ed Lab Live presents ‘Tales of Quarantine’ with Seattle-based Mission InspirEd 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z His only appearance with the company was in 2017, conducting an oddball new production of “La Bohème” that launched Puccini’s fin de siècle Parisian bohemians as astronauts into outer space. Gustavo Dudamel is Paris Opera's next music director. What does this mean for L.A.? 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z Great Performances at the Met Soprano Renée Fleming performs arias by Puccini and Massenet and selections by Handel and Korngold at the historic Dumbarton Oaks estate in Washington, D.C., in the season premiere. What's on TV Friday: 'Penn & Teller: Fool Us' on the CW 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z “Pasadena Presents” Pasadena Symphony’s spring season continues with works by Bach, Mozart and Puccini, plus Milhaud’s Sonatine for Violin and Cello featuring music director David Lockington on cello. 19 weekend culture picks: Liza turns 75, and Lily Tomlin and Nathan Lane help celebrate 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z Puccini was recruited for the lawsuit by Ohlensehlen, and said all of the women knew “we could just be doing this all for nothing.” Iowa swimmers wondered if Title IX suit was ‘going to work’ 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z “The Magic of Callas” Opera legend Maria Callas graces the stage in a 1964 production of Puccini’s “Tosca” in the PBS series “Great Performances.” 19 culture picks, including L.A. Phil benefit with Dudamel, Natalie Portman and Katy Perry 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z Christensen’s favorite restaurant in Indianapolis was a nondescript pizza joint called Puccini’s. Peyton Manning and others share their favorite Clyde Christensen stories 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z After four months of making calls for Biden from his childhood bedroom in Florida, Puccini was looking forward to finally meeting other Biden supporters in D.C. on Wednesday. Inaugurations are highly anticipated events in D.C. Now people must watch from their couches. 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z Diva of divas Maria Callas graces the stage in a 1964 production of Puccini’s “Tosca” at London’s Royal Opera House on a new “Great Performances.” What’s on TV This Week: Maria Callas, 'American Gods' and more 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z By that point, Puccini had entered the transfer portal and committed to Arizona, where she still swims. Iowa swimmers wondered if Title IX suit was ‘going to work’ 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z He’s done a total of 10 composers and more are planned, including Puccini and Rachmaninoff. Live from Italy, Hershey Felder tells stories, helps others 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z Then the soprano secured one of the lead roles in a retelling of Puccini's most famous work, which tells of the tragic romance of writer Rodolfo and seamstress Mimì, who dies of a respiratory condition. Drive-in opera singer 'excited to be back' 2020-09-26T04:00:00Z An aria from Puccini’s “La Rondine,” sung by soprano Kiri Te Kanawa, fills the warm afternoon air with shivery, delicate longing. Why you should revisit the beautifully romantic ‘A Room with a View’ | Movies with Moira 2020-09-07T04:00:00Z Puccini searched long, hard and unsuccessfully for the musical sorcery to procure a union of opposites. The Tao of 'Turandot': Why there's no escaping Puccini's opera 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z When Puccini looks back, she’s proud of the lawsuit: “For us to be able to do what we did, I think inspired a lot of the other teams that had gotten cut.” Iowa swimmers wondered if Title IX suit was ‘going to work’ 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z “Renée Fleming Live in Concert” The star soprano sings pieces by Puccini, Handel and others in a live recital from Washington, D.C., as part of the “Met Stars Live in Concert” series. 17 picks for weekend culture: How to see #Ham4Change, Renée Fleming, Broadway Bares 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z We have African-American opera singers who sing Puccini and Mozart, but they treat those songs with respect, they acknowledge the origins and they honour the roots of the music.” Complicated history of Swing Low, Sweet Chariot needs to be taught and honoured | Andy Bull 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z It featured a string quartet playing Italian composer Giacomo Puccini’s “Chrysanthemum”, chosen for its requiem-like sadness. Serenading plants: Barcelona opera reopens with unusual concert 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z For a short, symbolic moment, Puccini kept Mussolini at bay. The Tao of 'Turandot': Why there's no escaping Puccini's opera 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z Shortened versions of the Mozart’s Magic Flute and Puccini’s La Bohème have been programmed. Honk if you like my arias: the summer of drive-in culture 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z Opera for families Los Angeles Opera streams the kid-friendly tale “The Prospector,” set during California’s Gold Rush in the 19th century and inspired by Puccini’s “The Girl of the Golden West.” California African American Museum moves its dance party to Instagram. You're invited 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z It was during Act 1 of the final dress rehearsal for Puccini’s “La Rondine” at the Peabody Conservatory that the school president sent out an email canceling all nonessential gatherings because of the coronavirus pandemic. College seniors hurried to squeeze in last school memories 2020-03-29T04:00:00Z More soothing pieces include the theme song to children's TV show Mister Rogers - recently immortalised on film by Tom Hanks - and Puccini's Tosca, performed by the opera great Maria Callas. The Village People's YMCA preserved for posterity 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z Puccini does adopt traditional modal Chinese tunes as well as make up his own. The Tao of 'Turandot': Why there's no escaping Puccini's opera 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z Picture the scene: the curtain rises as the orchestra strikes up the opening bars of Puccini’s La Bohème or Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin. 'Special feeling': Russian theatre to hold shows for audiences of one 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z Mencken described the music of Puccini as “silver macaroni, exquisitely tangled,” and like many Italian tales, the facts in the case of Pliny are as pliable as tubes of boiled pasta. Here Lies the Skull of Pliny the Elder, Maybe 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z Among them: a world-class opera house inaugurated by Plácido Domingo conducting Puccini’s “Turandot,” and a symphony orchestra that reflected the sultan’s lifelong appreciation for music and his interest in the lute and pipe organ. Sultan Qaboos, who transformed Oman into a regional power broker, dies at 79 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z Although the music of “Wozzeck” is ostensibly atonal, glimmers of Wagner, Puccini, Mahler, and Strauss shine through the work’s dark façade. Operatic Shows of Force 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z Berio places Puccini’s sketches outside of time, allowing them to interact with music of Puccini’s past, present and unknown future. The Tao of 'Turandot': Why there's no escaping Puccini's opera 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z Eyvazov’s goals for his future include more heroic tenor parts in the Italian repertoire but also his first Rodolfo in Puccini’s “La Boheme,” a more lyrical role he hopes to sing at the Met. Tenor moves out of Anna Netrebko’s shadow 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z La Bohème: AKA “The Hipsters” Pacific Opera Project reprises its update of Puccini’s tragedy, transposing the tale of struggling artists from 19th-century Paris to present day Los Angeles; sung in Italian with projected English titles. Classical music in L.A. this week: Handel's Messiah, 'La Boheme' and more 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z “I don’t mean that this is better than the one we are used to. I simply want to make known all of the music that Puccini wrote for this opera.” ‘Tosca’ gives a #MeToo ring to La Scala’s gala premiere 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z Pacific Opera Project’s update of Puccini’s tragic tale of struggling artists transposes the action from 19th-century Paris to present-day downtown L.A. 10 things to do in L.A., including the 'Frozen' musical at the Pantages 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z He put down his baton at the place where Puccini stopped writing. The Tao of 'Turandot': Why there's no escaping Puccini's opera 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z The Russian diva is in Milan, Italy, where she opened La Scala’s season in Puccini’s “Tosca,” and their assignments both end just a few days before Christmas. Tenor moves out of Anna Netrebko’s shadow 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z Sound and Fury The Verdi Chorus and guest vocalists sing works by Verdi, Puccini and Lehár. Classical music in L.A. this week: LA Opera's 'Magic Flute' and more 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z “The modernity of the subject, the greatness of Puccini’s music, makes ‘Tosca’ very contemporary, very credible and very similar to a reality that is very raw and harsh in our society.’’ ‘Tosca’ gives a #MeToo ring to La Scala’s gala premiere 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z Mr. Giordani was best known for his command of bel canto operas, the later works of the Italian composers Verdi and Puccini, and French operas including Massenet’s “Manon” and Bizet’s “Carmen.” Marcello Giordani, celebrated Italian operatic tenor, dies at 56 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z Puccini kept the tap open, allowing the music to flow between past, present and future in a way never before found in opera. The Tao of 'Turandot': Why there's no escaping Puccini's opera 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z But they’ll be reunited soon: They’re singing together in a New Year’s Eve gala at the Met that features three fully staged acts from different Puccini operas. Tenor moves out of Anna Netrebko’s shadow 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z A homeless woman has a viral moment belting Puccini in the L.A. subway and, suddenly, new prospects. Newsletter: A low-tech approach in Silicon Valley 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z “This is Puccini for a new generation, for a world moving on,” he writes. Essential Arts: The Music Center roiled by a resignation and harassment investigation 2019-09-21T04:00:00Z Set in Paris around the turn of the 20th century, about the time Puccini wrote it, the production felt modern anyway. Review: For an embattled L.A. Opera, a 'La Bohème' that points the way forward 2019-09-15T04:00:00Z But that world had just been transformed by the Great War, and there had been enough of the grim reality that Puccini poignantly underscored in his verismo operas. The Tao of 'Turandot': Why there's no escaping Puccini's opera 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z I cannot fathom why that opera is not as popular as anything by Puccini—its melodic writing is no less indelible, its expressive urgency no less intense. Erich Wolfgang Korngold, the Opera Composer Who Went Hollywood 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z In Puccini’s by-now universal story, two star-crossed lovers, a Japanese woman and a white man, together embody Rudyard Kipling’s dictum: “East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.” Opinion | Close the Curtain on ‘Miss Saigon’ 2019-08-03T04:00:00Z Miss Saigon Hit musical, inspired by the Puccini opera “Madame Butterfly,” about an ill-fated romance between a young Vietnamese woman and an American soldier. SoCal theater, July 14-21: Musical parodies of ‘Friends’ and ‘Lost’ and more 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z This is Puccini for a new generation, for a world moving on. Review: For an embattled L.A. Opera, a 'La Bohème' that points the way forward 2019-09-15T04:00:00Z Franco Alfano, using Puccini’s sketches , wrote a conventional ending that channels a past Puccini, not a future one. The Tao of 'Turandot': Why there's no escaping Puccini's opera 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z Although he knew his Puccini, Mahler, and Richard Strauss, he was far more than a clever imitator. Erich Wolfgang Korngold, the Opera Composer Who Went Hollywood 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z |
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