What provides a more exhilarating theatrical experience than an uproarious comedy staged to perfection? How about one that comes clothed in musical splendor as well? By the time the piece has run its ...

Woody Allen brings his comedic touch and sense of movie history to Puccini's "Gianni Schicchi" in this video recorded last fall during live performances by the Los Angeles Opera at Dorothy Chandler ...

Back to the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, after a six-year furlough, came Gianni Schicchi, one-act opera by Giacomo Puccini, last of an uninspiring triptych. Giuseppe De Luca was ...

In "O mio babbino caro," one of opera's most familiar tunes, Gianni Schicchi's doting daughter Lauretta urges him to help out her boyfriend's greedy pack of relatives. This recording is by soprano ...

Rachmaninoff’s Aleko and Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi are apt partners not only because they are vehicles for a ‘star’ baritone but also because they share a common theme in that both are about outsiders ...

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 ...

This time there was the difference that the eponymous characters were sung by RNCM artists in residence Linda Richardson and Quentin Hayes – a first, as far as I’m aware, and one that gave poise and ...

Grange Park Opera is becoming known not only for its innovative and often starry Summer productions, but also its commitment to keeping opera alive with free to view performances. This eye-poppingly ...

While a comedic plot about a greedy Florentine family scrambling over an inheritance might not be the first thing that comes to the average mind when thinking of an opera, Princeton Opera Company ...

Placido Domingo, Andriana Chuchman, Arturo-Chacon Cruz, “Gianni Schicchi” (Sony Classical) Woody Allen brings his comedic touch and sense of movie history to Puccini’s “Gianni Schicchi” in this video ...