We spoke to conductor Alexander Joel and soprano Natalya Romaniw about how Puccini tugs at those heart-strings in his famous tragic opera. We caught up with conductor Alexander Joel and soprano ...

Among the most goose-bump-inducing moments in opera is Mimì’s entrance in the duet that concludes the first act of Giacomo Puccini’s 1896 opera “La Bohème.” Rodolfo (tenor), a struggling poet, has ...

may be the most loved work in all of opera. Its romantic story of starving artists and Parisian courtesans falling in love and coping with poverty sets audience hearts' fluttering. Its sweeping arias ...

In the 21st century, the dilemma facing many opera companies around the world is how to refresh centuries-old operas to appeal to a modern audience. Giacomo Puccini’s masterpiece “La Bohème,” one of ...

Conductor Emmanuel Villaume brings drive and intensity to Richard Jones’s detailed but inconsistent production of Puccini’s brilliantly written opera There are Puccini operas that some of us might not ...

'What can you say about a 25-year-old girl who died." What saves La Boheme from sticky sentimentality is a superb, heart-rushing score . It's not just the famous melodies, securely ensconced in the ...

Jonathan Miller’s 2009 staging opens English National Opera’s season with Nadine Benjamin an affecting Mimì and conductor Clelia Cafiero, making an impressive UK debut Puccini was only 65 when he died ...

Houston Public Media's St.John Flynn and Eric Skelly of the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra give a quick overview of Giacomo Puccini's powerful and tragic love story set in the Latin Quarter of Paris in ...

The first opera to reveal Puccini's true genius was 1896's La Boheme. The composer's imaginative treatment of character and situation, his sure instinct for dramatic and comic effects, and above all ...

Beijing Bohème is a 21st-century take on Puccini's La Bohème, drawing parallels between the Chinese capital today and the Latin Quarter of Paris in the 1840s. Rudy, an aspiring writer, falls ...