Puccini, who died 100 years ago this year, had a lasting fondness for his native Tuscany – and despite his wealth and fame in later life never moved far from his birthplace in Lucca.
2024 marks the centenary of Giacomo Puccini’s death. Yet his work is often relegated from histories of 20th-century music. Puccini scholar Alexandra Wilson explores the diversity – and modernism – of the composer’s later operas.
Giacomo Puccini knew how to pull the heartstrings in his music. He made his soprano characters suffer... but also composed some of his best music for them.
Wayne McGregor’s ambitious ballet based on The Divine Comedy, with a commissioned score by Thomas Adès, is finally receiving its complete premiere – exactly 700 years after Dante’s death. The choreographer talks to Sarah Kirkup about the intricate process behind this multi-arts collaboration.
The tale of Francesca and Paolo in Dante’s Inferno has inspired as many musical settings as paintings. Here, Mark Pullinger explores Rachmaninov’s neglected opera, Francesca da Rimini.
Although they no longer live in the same city, editors (and best friends in real life) Mark and Elisabeth spend almost more time together than when they both worked at Bachtrack's London headquarters! Whether it's at their daily virtual coffee or over a Sachertorte in a Viennese coffee house, they still argue about their musical preferences – Puccini vs. Verdi. One of many things they do agree on, however, is the unbeatable quality of Schnitzel and Viennese opera houses.
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