It's the latter that we’re currently seeing in action at If Opera, whose first real season (there was a taster last year with a scaled-back Cav/Pag) opened this week at Wiltshire’s lovely Belcombe ...

Opera Santa Barbara will conclude its 23rd season with the company’s premiere production of Giacomo Puccini’s poignant operetta La Rondine. Performances are 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 28, and 2:30 p.m.

Set in the 1920s, James Hurley’s staging – the third of the company’s Green Season – is blessed with perfectly mismatched lovers. Under conductor Kerem Hasan the score sighs and swoons Puccini’s La ...

The only thing wrong with Washington Concert Opera’s energizing performance of Giacomo Puccini’s “La Rondine” on Sunday at the Lisner Auditorium was that I could hear it just once. Oh, and also the ...

At a fashionable Parisian party, a poet speaks of the nature of love, and Magda realizes that her life as a courtesan has no love at all. Seeking to relive her poor but happy youth, she dresses as a ...

Ask an opera fan to name a work by Puccini where the heroine is undone by love, and chances are good the response will be “Madama Butterfly” or “La Boheme.” But with its next production, Opera San ...