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| Composer | Puccini, Giacomo (1858-1924) |
| Period | Romantic |
| Librettist | Giovacchino Forzano |
| Year | 1918 |
| Work type | Opera / Oratorio |
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Speranza Scappucci; Richard Jones; The Royal Opera; Ultz; Nicky Gillibrand; DM Wood; Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden
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Pappano and the LSO on fire in Strauss and Puccini at the BBC Proms
This Strauss-Puccini Prom concert paired the Symphonic Fantasy from Die Frau ohne Schatten and Puccini's one-act opera, Suor Angelica.
Bieito directs a moving Suor Angelica and Il prigioniero in Rome
An unusual double bill pairing of Puccini’s Suor Angelica and Dallapiccola’s Il prigioniero opens at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma.
Sensitive stagecraft and directorial rage: Suor Angelica at ENO
Miskimmon's relocation of the action to Ireland is unsparing in its evocation not of some tearjerking melodrama but of an almost documentary reportage on real events.
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Puccini
Carlo Rizzi; Christof Loy; Opéra national de Paris; Étienne Pluss; Barbara Drosihn; Fabrice Kebour; Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Paris
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A journey through Puccini’s Tuscany
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.
Puccini and the moderns: a composer in the 20th century
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.
Inventive double bills at New National Theatre Tokyo’s 2023–24 season
Beginning with an unusual Puccini/Ravel double bill, and with two new productions and an array of revivals, New National Theatre Tokyo’s season 2023–24 has much to offer.