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.

See which operas Justice Ginsburg chose as her her five favorites during her visit to WFMT.