Here are my picks for the latest can't-miss live performances in the Coachella Valley and surrounding communities. Dianne ...

The performance will consist of a full-scale traditional Italian-style production of Giacomo Puccini's "Madama Butterfly" with chorus, international soloists and orchestra. Tickets are $12 for ...

Review: MADAMA BUTTERFLY at Four Seasons Centre ... San Diego Opera celebrated the opening of its 60th season with Giacomo Puccini’s La bohème, the same opera the company staged to open its ...

2024: Ukraine withdraws its troops from the key eastern town of Avdiivka, blaming a lack of western-supplied weapons. On the same day, South African cricketer Mike Procter dies aged 77.

The COC’s 2025 production of this masterpiece seamlessly blends performance practice tradition with a contemporary ...

has returned to the Canadian Opera Company for an eight-show run in a new-to-Toronto production of Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly.” ...

The future of “Madama Butterfly” at the Canadian Opera Company is — pun not intended — up in the air. Joshua Chong is a Toronto-based arts critic and culture reporter for the Star.

The Metropolitan Opera will double cast a portion of Verdi and Puccini revivals and shift some contemporary compositions away from Saturdays at the recommendation of a consultant trying to boost the ...

When the curtain rises Saturday evening on Los Angeles Opera’s “Turandot,” composer Giacomo Puccini’s last work will feature the L.A. debut of the production’s biggest star: monumental stage sets ...

When it comes to name recognition in Italian opera, Giacomo Puccini usually comes in second place to the slightly more famed Giuseppe Verdi. If there were a ranking for the most spectacularly ...

Puccini’s Japanese tragedy Madama Butterfly has somehow been caught in the eye of a perfect storm: between charges of colonialist Orientalism on the one hand and misogynist objectification on the ...