English National Opera’s 2020 production of Giacomo Puccini’s Madam Butterfly - Corbis Entertainment Among all the composers whose operas have continued to enthral audiences, Giacomo Puccini ...

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Giacomo Puccini’s penultimate opera, Il trittico (“The triptych”) premiered at the prestigious New York City’s Metropolitan Opera after the successful opening at that company of his Girl of the Golden ...

One opera is good. Three are better. That’s what audiences will experience when Houston Grand Opera presents the full trilogy of Giacomo Puccini’s “Il Trittico,” running Thursday through Nov. 14 at ...

Most people with even a hint of knowledge about opera, know Giacomo Puccini wrote the music to his masterpieces La Boheme, Madame Butterfly and Tosca. As for his collection of three one-act operas ...

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In recent years, having returned to the three masterpieces – in their totality probably Puccini’s supreme offering – in Zoom classes, I’ve found more subtle connections with Dante as a source of ...