Verdi, on the other hand — his beard was an ungroomed mess.

Lucca is the birthplace of the composer Giacomo Puccini. Puccini was born in Lucca in 1858 and died in Brussels in 1924, and music fans – especially opera lovers – consider visiting an homage ...

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 ...

The New Jersey Association of Verismo Opera will perform Giacomo Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 7 ...

On Feb. 1, 1790, the U.S. Supreme Court convened in New York City for its first session. Only three of the six justices were ...

On Jan. 31, the Knoxville Opera put on the first of two performances of “La Bohème,” a timeless Italian libretto set in ...

Giacomo Puccini was a musical genius and gave the world some of the most beautiful and memorable operas of the late 19th and early 20th centuries such as La Bohème, Madam Butterfly and Turandot. His ...

On Friday and Sunday, they will present performances of “La Bohème,” the classic opera by Giacomo Puccini about poor artists in Paris in the 1830s. It is a tale of love and heartbreak ...

According to those that count such things, Giacomo Puccini’s La Boheme is perennially in the top five of the “most produced” ...

Wine, cheese and cocoa • The Village of Long Grove transforms itself into a cocoa town for its eighth annual Cocoa Crawl.

On the anniversary of the premiere on April 25, 1926, John Steane looks at the recordings of Puccini's last opera... Read more The fifth of seven children, he was christened Giacomo Antonio Domenico ...