Grand opera doesn't get much grander. Gulfshore Opera's icy, fantasy-themed "Turandot" boasts a whopping 65 chorus singers. Plus six extras, nine principal singers and an orchestra with 32-62 players ...

Portland Opera will cap off their season on May 11, 2024, with Puccini: In Concert, a one-night-only performance commemorating the great Italian opera composer, Giacomo Puccini, 100 years after his ...

Two classic operas, a world premiere and a concert presentation of one of Puccini’s early works make up the newly announced Minnesota Opera 2025-2026 season. “We’re all telling stories about ourselves ...

The humor of Rodolfo and his friends — the painter Marcello, the philosopher Colline and the musician Schaunard — trying to ...

The Symphony Chorus of New Orleans presents "music for the masses" in more than one sense this weekend, with a program of music written for religious services that's also likely to appeal to plenty of ...

Seattle Opera will close its 2024/25 season with Giacomo Puccini’s shocking melodrama Tosca, the fiery tale of an opera diva who risks everything to save her beloved from the grasp of a sadistic and ...

Deep love, betrayal and heartbreak. Giacomo Puccini’s tragic 1904 opera, “Madama Butterfly,” hits all three emotional notes. “’Madama Butterfly’ is one of the most moving human dramas that has ever ...

Soprano Chelsea Basler as Musetta, right, and the chorus at the in Cafe Momus in rehearsal for the Opera Company of Middlebury production of Puccini’s “La bohème.” All four performances are sold out ...

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“All in all, isn’t life simply grand? I’m so awfully glad I showed up for it.” (Madeline Mitchell in the opera THREE DECEMBERS) This is a preview or heads up about three chamber operas and one opera ...