Puccini

Giacomo Puccini's final opera Turandot gets a brand new ending premiered in Washington, with music by a composer known for video game tunes and a librettist who produced 'Succession'

On Tuesday, August 25 at 7:00, KPAC 88.3 FM will broadcast Opera San Antonio's production of Giacomo Puccini's "Tosca," recorded last September at the…

With a muscular, mahogany-colored voice, one of the today's finest tenors sings his way through the hits and lesser-known operas by Puccini.

There are essentially two views of Puccini. To his admirers he is one of the most beloved, most lyrical and at times moving composers of the modern period…

William Berger, author of Puccini Without Excuses, sizes up two new and very different recordings of the composer's best-known opera. Berger says the beauty of Bohème lies in the little details of the characters' lives.

A century ago, an abandoned young woman took the stage at La Scala in Milan, Italy, and the world met Madame Butterfly, Giacomo Puccini's most famous opera heroine. Her story, set in Japan around 1900, is a tragic one of innocence betrayed. But as NPR's Ketzel Levine reports, Madame Butterfly lives on through an immortal musical score.

Today marks the 100th anniversary of the U.S. premiere of Puccini's Tosca . Despite a mediocre reception and a poor review of the first performance at the Metropolitan Opera, Tosca endures as one of the most revered operas in history. Lisa discovers why it's also one of the most disaster-prone.