Two operas will be featured in performances at the Jerusalem Theatre. The Jerusalem Opera and the Jerusalem Symphony ...

The world of opera was shaken on the morning of November 29, 1924. Giacomo Puccini, the most famous composer of his time, had died in Brussels as a result of surgery for throat cancer. Or rather, as a ...

Intellectual condescension toward Giacomo Puccini, which still persists, started during his lifetime, when his operas played the world’s houses and made him wealthy. How wealthy? When Puccini died at ...

One location of a family-friendly pizza and pasta chain that’s been part of Lexington’s dining scene for decades is closing.

Tri-Cities Opera is opening up its 76th season with a short and funny production that’s great for first-time operagoers. TCO ...

For 84 years, opera buffs have puzzled over how the Italian composer Giacomo Puccini meant to end one of his best-loved operas, Turandot, which is set in a mythical China. Puccini died before he ...

Giacomo Puccini was never shy when it came to writing operas with exotic settings — or at least settings that seemed exotic to European audiences. Still, Puccini may have outdone himself with La ...

The Republican National Convention climaxed last week with its presidential nominee’s name spelled out in fireworks over the National Mall. The first family was then serenaded by a pop operatic tenor ...

Sunday’s episode of “Downton Abbey” on PBS featured a guest appearance by one of opera’s biggest living talents: Dame Kiri Te Kanawa. The New Zealand-born soprano played Dame Nellie Melba, an actual ...