For the finale of what has been a glorious season, Opera Santa Barbara offers one of Giacomo Puccini’s less often performed works, the late operetta La rondine. Written to order for a Viennese ...

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 ...

When you're feeling sentimental there's nothing like Puccini. The design elements of this production embrace the tone of Puccini's opera more perfectly than one could ever imagine. It's a tone of ...

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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.

On Saturday, the high-definition broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera will be Giacomo Puccini's "La Rondine." The performance, which will take place at the Town Plaza Cinema, begins at noon ...

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 ...

When the star soprano stepped onto the Royal Opera House stage at the opening of Puccini’s La rondine (‘The swallow’), the tension was palpable. Whatever the rights and wrongs of her tricky week in ...