Soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek gives a fearless performance as Minnie, the opera’s gun-toting heroine, who runs a saloon for a camp of rambunctious miners in the California Gold Rush.

Extraordinary soprano Asmik Grigorian makes her highly anticipated Met debut tackling the demanding role of Cio-Cio-San, the loyal geisha at the heart of Puccini’s devastating tragedy

Puccini’s bittersweet love story makes a rare Met appearance, with soprano Angel Blue starring as the French courtesan Magda.

The festival, which is dedicated to presenting seldom-performed Italian opera titles, shares a two-program slate in June and July.

Franco Zeffirelli’s staging premiered in 1987 and is among the most lavish sets in Met history, recreating an imperial throne room with 199 people on stage.

Franco Zeffirelli’s dazzling vision of mythic China retakes the stage, with soprano Elena Pankratova making her Met debut as the legendary—and lethal—title princess.

The season includes 9 programs, including concerts from opera and musical theater royalty.

Four contemporary operas have their Met premieres.

Soprano Elena Stikhina is the heartbreaking seamstress Mimì, and tenor Joseph Calleja is the role of the love-struck poet Rodolfo.

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An epic production starring Amarilli Nizza as Minne, Claudio Sgura as Jack Rance, and more.

Music by Josephine Lang, Benjamin Britten, Ottorino Respighi, and Giacomo Puccini.

A retrospective on Lorin Maazel, the Philharmonic’s former music director, and his seven-decade relationship with the orchestra.

Anna Netrebko will sing the title role in Puccini’s Manon Lescaut.

The director says that the reinterpretation emphasizes the power of love despite inevitable death and disappointment.

It’s been a very Puccini year for conductor Eun Sun Kim. In the span of 9 months, she’ll have conducted two Toscas, two Bohèmes, and a Turandot. Here’s how she continues to find the new in these beloved scores.

The new company launches with fully staged works by Puccini and Wolf-Ferrari, plus a concert inspired by Dante’s Divine Comedy.

A Verdi and bel canto expert, Lyric’s new music director Enrique Mazzola will open the season with Verdi’s Macbeth and Donizetti’s The Elixir of Love, while also conducting contemporary opera Proving Up by Missy Mazzoli later in the season.

Many composers have also answered the call of springtime’s riotous colors during this, the blooming season.

An audience is an audience, no matter who (or what species) is in it. Case in point: Erin G. McCarthy recently gave a quick recital in her barn to an audience of three alpacas.

Giordani had a heart attack at his home in Sicily.

Lyric’s 2019-2020 season will include seven mainstage operas (three of which are company premieres), three full performances of Lyric’s new Ring cycle, and the Broadway at Lyric premiere of 42nd Street.

Lyric Opera of Chicago’s 2018-19 season opens this weekend with a classic: Puccini’s beloved La bohème.

Get your cauldron brewing with works by Donizetti, Puccini, Haydn, Delibes, and more!

And she doesn’t sound as fowl as you might think, either.