One of Puccini's greatest hits, "O mio babbino caro" is usually the point at which the opera "Gianni Schicchi" grinds to a halt. Ravishing though young Lauretta's love song is, it freezes the drama.

The glorious Opera Theatre of Saint Louis opened it's festival season last night with a sheer delight: Puccini's delectable one-act comedy, Gianni Schicchi. Yes, after a terrible year of quarantine ...

What a splendid night this was for Opera Santa Barbara. The double feature of Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi succeeded in conveying two crucial features of the operatic form—the lightheartedness of ...

Lucine Amara, artistic director of the New Jersey Association of Verismo Opera (Verismo Opera), announces veteran opera bass, Harry Dworchak of Cranford, returns to the stage to debut in the company's ...

Woody Allen said Tuesday as he prepared for his directing debut at Milan's La Scala opera house that he has "always had a warm and affectionate following in Europe." Allen was greeted with applause ...

In his most recent movies, Woody Allen has worked with actors including Emma Stone, Colin Firth and Cate Blanchett. This year, the filmmaker will team up with a different kind of star when he directs ...

A scheming scoundrel will rule the Macomb Center for the Performing Arts Saturday evening and Sunday afternoon when Michigan Opera Theatre stages Puccini's comic masterpiece "Gianni Schicchi" and its ...

Five years elapsed from his first plans to the premiere of Il trittico in 1918. But with this three-part evening for Italian ...

Lyric Opera’s first complete production of the three Puccini one-act operas known collectively as “Il Trittico” gave subscribers an opportunity to ponder the relative strengths and weaknesses of these ...

Plàcido Domingo has canceled his upcoming appearance in Woody Allen’s staging of “Gianni Schicchi” in Madrid, due to the recent death of his sister, the tenor’s publicist confirmed on Thursday.