Composer

Can we live completely free and still remain responsible? »La Bohème« – much more than a touching tale of love and art – tackles this existential question.

Bohemia

Theater Aachen

The Women's Board of Lyric Opera of Chicago warmly invites you to Civic Night at Lyric, an exclusive evening to celebrate the art of opera alongside our esteemed corporate and community partners. Join us for a captivating performance of Puccini’s timeless La Bohème on Friday, March 28, followed by a lively post-performance networking reception. Enjoy drinks, delicious bites, and great company as we come together at the Lyric Opera House. Main Floor and First Balcony tickets are available and can be purchased individually or in groups. We look forward to sharing this unforgettable night with you!

Civic Night at Lyric: La Bohème

Civic Opera House

The RCM’s emerging conductors take the opportunity to shine in this student-curated concert featuring a selection of short orchestral works.

From Debussy's much-loved masterpiece to an arrangement of Gershwin’s ‘jazz concerto’, there is something for everyone.

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 Conductors' Podium: Rhapsody in Blue

Royal College of Music

In this groundbreaking new production created by an all-Japanese and Japanese American creative team, Madama Butterfly’s story is transported to a fantastical realm where reality and dreams intersect.

Pinkerton puts on a VR headset and transports us into a vibrant virtual reality playground where he has ultimate control. As his avatar, a U.S. Navy Lieutenant, he can seduce and marry his fantasy girl and abandon her just as easily. But to Cio-Cio San, this is no game and the love and betrayal she feels is all too real.

Madama Butterfly

Benedum Center for the Performing Arts

Experience the bittersweet wonder of Puccini's beloved masterpiece once more in this glorious production from esteemed director Ellen Kent. Back on tour in 2025 due to popular demand, it's a mesmerizing and sumptuous affair that highlights Puccini's greatest score with spectacular sets and costumes including a breathtaking Japanese garden.  One of the most popular works in the repertoire, prepare to be swept up in the story of a young Japanese woman and her heartbreaking relationship with a dashing American Naval Officer.

Ellen Kent's Madama Butterfly

Brighton Memorial Library

California in 1850: hundreds of thousands have fallen for the gold rush – and some of them also for the barkeeper Minnie, at whose saloon various fortune seekers meet every evening. Among them is Sheriff Jack Rance. Minnie, however, falls in love with the stranger Dick Johnson. It soon turns out that Johnson is a wanted robber: the sheriff wants to see him hang and have Minnie to himself. A round of poker is to decide about Dick’s life: is there yet another trump up Minnie’s sleeve?

La Fanciulla del West (The Girl of the West)

Staatsoper Hamburg

With the two one-act pieces from Puccini's Il Trittico , which premiered in 1918 , the annual production of the Institute for Singing and Music Theatre includes works that are both grand operas and psychological miniatures.

Giacomo Puccini: Suor Angelica & Gianni Schicchi

Schönbrunn Palace

Leading British theatremaker Ellen Kent presents the 2025 UK tour of them most romantic opera in the world, Puccini's La Boheme. The hotly anticipated production promises a full orchestra, lavish costumes and sets, as well as internationally acclaimed singers, a brass band, whirling snow effects and rumour has it, a real dog!

Ellen Kent's La Boheme

Theatre Royal Brighton

The illustrious Cleveland Orchestra sets the stage for a dramatic performance with Haydn’s turbulent Symphony No. 52 before presenting the anticipated Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage debut of soprano Asmik Grigorian—a recent worldwide “sensation” (BBC Music Magazine) at leading opera houses such as the Vienna State Opera and Salzburg Festival. Music Director Franz Welser-Möst calls Grigorian “the complete package” (The New York Times), and indeed, their recent collaborations on major international stages have earned overwhelming levels of excitement from audiences and critics alike.

The Cleveland Orchestra

Carnegie Hall

Join us at the grand Compton Heights home of Marjorie Smith for our first 2025 offering featuring dramatic soprano Kelly Slawson, violist Victoria Voumard and pianist Jonathan Heaney. The program will feature three of Richard Wagner’s Wesendonk Lieder, musical theater pieces of Kurt Weill and the iconic “In questa reggia” from Puccini’s Turandot.

2025 House Concert Series 1

Home of Marjorie Smith, Compton Heights

Operatic tours de force featuring three internationally renowned singers and a chamber orchestra celebrating the legacy of support for the arts by Susie & Sam Macfarlane.

Honoring Susie & Sam Macfarlane

Church of the Redeemer in Baltimore

The Italian opera classic as a gripping thriller: The singer Floria Tosca and her lover, the artist Mario Cavaradossi, find themselves in the crosshairs of police violence, political intrigue and deception. For the 125th anniversary of the opera, director José Cortés takes a close look at the well-known material and reveals the depths of human nature.

Tosca: Giacomo Puccini

Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden

Experience the timeless allure of Puccini's La Bohème, presented by the Lyric Opera of Chicago. This enduring masterpiece captures the essence of young love in 19th-century Paris, brought to life through the poignant arias of characters like the passionate poet Rodolfo, the delicate seamstress Mimì, and the spirited Musetta. The production features the remarkable talents of sopranos Ailyn Pérez and Gabriella Reyes, alongside tenor Pene Pati in his Lyric debut and baritone Will Liverman. Under the expert direction of conductor Jordan de Souza, the performance promises to be a memorable addition to Lyric Opera's storied tradition of La Bohème renditions. The opera is sung in Italian with projected English titles, ensuring an immersive experience for all attendees. The production also includes innovative accessibility features such as audio-described performances and the SoundShirt, which allows wearers to feel the music through touch sensations. With a running time of 2 hours and 20 minutes, including one intermission, this new-to-Chicago production is set to captivate audiences with its beauty, sensitivity, and universal themes of romance and heartbreak.

La Bohème

Lyric Opera House

In Puccini’s only comedic opera, the cunning and resourceful Gianni Schicchi (pronounced Johnny SKEE-kee) is sought out by the Donati family to alter the will of their deceased patriarch, Buoso. Schicchi, seizing the opportunity to outwit the greedy relatives, devises a clever scheme that not only benefits himself but also ensures justice prevails.

Family Feuds: Gianni Schicchi + Chorus and Orchestra Concert

Jefferson Center

 Journey through Italy’s rich musical landscape with a delightful quartet by Boccherini, a poignant elegy by Puccini, and a Respighi quartet that captures the essence of Italian musical brilliance. Bellissimo!

Ciao Bella

First Congregational United Church of Christ Great Falls

Severance Music Center is Cleveland’s home for symphonic music and other presentations, including Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Concert Hall and Reinberger Chamber Hall. We are strongly committed to making everyone feel welcome. The doors to Severance open three hours prior to most performances.

Haydn & Strauss

Severance Music Center

Senbla presents Opera International's award-winning Ellen Kent and the Ukrainian Opera & Ballet Theatre Kyiv production, with international soloists, highly-praised chorus and full orchestra.

Ellen Kent: Madama Butterfly

Edinburgh Playhouse

Directed by Ellen Kent, this brand-new production is traditionally staged and features beautiful sets and costumes.

Ellen Kent: La Bohème

Giacomo Puccini stands for grand opera and grand emotions. It is not widely known that the composer devoted himself to chamber music alongside his rich operatic output, and even tried out the "grand" form in it. Most of his works were written during his time as a student in Milan as a testament to his love of experimentation - including his Tre minuetti. From Italy he traveled to Japan with Toshio Hosokawa: he draws his inspiration from the connection between nature and man. Similar to the art of Japanese calligraphy, he sets note after note like a brushstroke, creating the most beautiful sound paintings. Camille Saint-Saëns was also an artist of timbres: his fantasy for harp and violin represents the gesture of French music par excellence - lightness and elegance meet clarity and haunting charm. Ludwig van Beethoven was by no means light-hearted when he set about writing his String Quartet in E flat major. A few months earlier, the Battle of Aspern, one of the bloodiest massacres of the Napoleonic Wars, had raged outside the gates of Vienna. A faint hope arose because Napoleon was unable to achieve a clear victory. The composer put some of this hope in the face of brooding melancholy into his music.

4th Chamber Concert

Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

Embark on a journey of passion and betrayal with Giacomo Puccini's timeless masterpiece, Tosca. Join us as the Symphony and South Bend Lyric Opera reunite for two unforgettable performances.

Puccini’s Tosca

DeBartolo Performing Arts Center

Opera And Songs From Around The World

St. Andrew's Episcopal Church

DesertView Performing Arts Center

Embark on a journey of passion and betrayal with Giacomo Puccini’s timeless masterpiece, Tosca. Join us as the Symphony, South Bend Lyric Opera, and South Bend Chamber Singers reunite for two unforgettable performances.

Tosca

University of Notre Dame

Senbla presents Opera International's award-winning Ellen Kent production featuring the Ukrainian Opera & Ballet Theatre Kyiv with international soloists, highly-praised chorus and full orchestra

Sheffield City Hall

Hungry, cold, broke, and deliriously in love, the artists in Puccini’s masterpiece break our hearts over and over again each time it is performed, our pulses quickening as Rodolfo lights Mimì’s candle anew. The Dallas Opera’s treasured period production returns with a fresh cast of some of opera’s brightest rising stars, transporting us to the cafés and corridors of Paris’s Latin Quarter as tragedy hovers nearby.

La bohème

AT&T Performing Arts Center

Manfred Honeck leads the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Richard Strauss’ Four Last Songs, highlights from Puccini’s Turandot and moving music by Suppé and MacMillan.

Four Last Songs

The Concertgebouw

Senbla presents Opera International's award-winning Ellen Kent Production featuring the Ukrainian Opera & Ballet Theatre Kyiv, with international soloists, highly-praised chorus and full orchestra.

Ellen Kent: La Bohème - featuring the Ukrainian Opera & Ballet Theatre Kyiv

Fairfield Halls

The University of Florida Opera Theatre and the Ocala Symphony Orchestra present two of Giacomo Puccini’s greatest works. The heartfelt Suor Angelica with its soaring orchestral score is one of his most beautiful musical dramas and reminiscent of the passionate Tosca. The hilarious Gianni Schicchi, his only true comedy, will be sung in a modern English translation with plenty of charming local references. It features one of the world’s most beloved songs, O mio babbino caro. Join these wonderful upcoming opera stars and the talented musicians of the OSO for a matinee of marvelous masterpieces. You don’t want to miss it! Both pieces are one act operas with supertitles and a 2 hour running time.

Opera at the Reilly: Puccini Love and Laughter!

Tuscawilla Park

In an attic in the Parisian Latin Quarter, the chateau is petite, but the personalities are grand. A group of artists live the bohemian lifestyle full of complicated relationships and nights at the café on a starving artist’s budget. Through the tumultuous relationships between Mimì and Rodolfo, and Marcello and Musetta, Puccini’s best-known opera encourages you to fully appreciate the fragility of life and love.

Puccini’s La bohème

Denver Performing Arts Complex

This captivating program, featuring soprano Avery Boettcher, traverses the emotional landscapes of love and fate through music. Beginning with Tchaikovsky’s powerful Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture, the evening continues with evocative arias by Gounod, Verdi, Puccini, and others, highlighting Avery’s vocal range and expressiveness. The performance concludes with Prokofiev’s selections from Romeo and Juliet, finishing a night replete with the most impassioned pieces of classical music.

Your Youngstown Symphony Presents Shakespeare In Love: Romeo & Juliet

Stambaugh Auditorium

Senbla presents Opera International's award-winning Ellen Kent production featuring the Ukrainian Opera & Ballet Theatre Kyiv with international soloists, highly-praised chorus and full orchestra.

Wycombe Swan Theatre

The Anvil

Back by overwhelming public demand, this award-winning Opera returns in a new production with exquisite sets including a spectacular Japanese garden and fabulous costumes including antique wedding kimonos from Japan.

New Wimbledon Theatre

Cio-Cio San marries a dashing American naval officer, but she doesn’t realize that he is merely having his fun before he gets his “true American wife.” Even after they are separated for three years, she holds out hope that he will return to her. When his boat finally sails in, he arrives with his new wife, and Cio-Cio San’s world is irreparably shattered. Join Anchorage Opera for the unforgettable experience of one of the greatest operas ever written.

Alaska Center for the Performing Arts

Of Love and Loss

Congregation Beth Israel

A nation is cowed by its princess. Turandot, beautiful and fascinating representative of a royal dynasty, presides over a gruesome ritual: only her marriage to a suitor will bring an end to the violence, but no would-be bridegroom has yet managed to solve the riddles. The same old spectacle plays out, ending in yet another execution, until Calaf, the son of a deposed ruler from a foreign land, unexpectedly answers the riddles correctly. He then turns the tables on Turandot, forcing her to answer his own question if she wants to steal out of her obligation. Puccini’s times are changing rapidly, the art world is going through drastic transformation and new, abstract forms are being coined to reflect modern-day experience. And the composer, in his early 60s, is again trying to break new ground.

Turandot

Deutsche Oper Berlin

Encounter the timeless tale of love and loss in Knoxville Opera's production of Puccini's masterpiece, La Bohème, at the historic Tennessee Theatre on January 31 and February 2, 2025. Directed by Stage Director and Knoxville Opera's Producing Director, Dean Anthony, this production promises to enthrall audiences with its poignant storytelling and exquisite melodies.

La Boheme

Tennessee Theatre

Experience all the feels as Principal Youth Conductor and Creative Partner Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser leads the NAC Orchestra in a program designed to showcase how a range of emotions can be expressed — and experienced — through music. Hear works by Beethoven, Nielsen, and other evocative composers!

Mad.Sad.Glad: A Symphony of Emotions 

National Arts Centre

Baron Scarpia collects trophies. And Floria Tosca, the celebrated opera diva, is to be his greatest achievement! He knows that she would reject him sharply - so it suits him, the unscrupulous police chief of Rome, just fine that Tosca's lover, the painter Mario Cavaradossi, is suspected of having helped an alleged enemy of the state. Scarpia forces Floria to listen to what Mario experiences in prison. In all kindness, he offers her a way out: to spend a night of love with him! But the singer is cleverer than he thinks and makes sure that he will not survive Tosca's kiss. But has she already won?
Giacomo Puccini's blockbuster is one of the most haunting, emotional operas ever. Some of the arias from it are still hits today - such as Vissi d'arte , when Floria Tosca sings about her life for art, to which political power games are completely alien. Or Cavaradossi's famous tenor solo E lucevan le stelle , which has been causing storms of applause during the orchestral postlude for over 120 years.
Director Christian Poewe and chief conductor Marcus Bosch will open the season in the main house with Tosca .

Staatstheater Mainz

Volkstheater Rostock - Big House

Giacomo Puccini’s beloved classic La Bohème transports you to the streets of 19th century Paris for one of the world’s most timeless and moving love stories. In the vibrant Latin Quarter, a romance ignites between the poet Rodolfo and beautiful but frail seamstress Mimì. With its exquisite melodies and stirring emotions, La Bohème continues to captivate audiences around the world. Immerse yourself in this unforgettable journey through the passions of youth and the bittersweet beauty of life.

Phoenix Convention Center

Linda Ronstadt Music Hall

A candle is snuffed, two hands touch in the darkness—and the love story of a poor poet and a young seamstress flares to life, burning until it can burn no more. Since 1896, audiences across the world have felt the powerful pull of Puccini’s heart-wrenching La bohème, with its unforgettable music and irresistible band of bohemians seeking love and life and beauty in belle époque Paris.  

Wortham Theater Center

A young Japanese woman faithfully awaits the return of her husband, an American naval officer. When he finally reappears years later, he brings with him the seeds of a heartbreaking tragedy. 

Canadian Opera Company

One of opera’s most beloved classics, Puccini’s La bohème explores the triumphs and tragedies of love in the lives of a group of bohemian friends. This classic tale of tragic romance is an immersive and poignant journey for both seasoned opera enthusiasts and those new to the art form.

Merrill Auditorium

Puccini, a leading figure in the verismo style, embraced realism, which emerged from the Italian literary scene of 1875-early 1900s. Verismo, meaning 'realism', focused on depicting everyday life and human dramas like illness, lost loves, and marital conflicts, as seen in La bohème. Unlike earlier epics and myths, verismo explored the lives of ordinary people, particularly the poor. Puccini frequently adapted successful plays and novellas for his operas, such as Madam Butterfly, based on a 1898 short story, and Tosca, derived from Victorien Sardou’s 1887 play 'La Tosca'.​

Puccini Around the World

The Commerce Center

Family, Forgiveness, and Faith all converge when Sister Angelica receives an unexpected visit from her Aunt after years as a penitant nun and mother of a child out of wedlock. Puccini’s masterpiece, debuted at the Metropolitan Opera in 1918, still thrills audiences to rapture and sorrow over a hundred years later.

Suor Angelica

OC Music & Dance

In order to make the music of Janáček's opera "Jenůfa" (1904) known in the concert hall, various orchestral suites have been compiled over the years. The latest and perhaps most successful attempt is that of the conductor Manfred Horneck and the composer Tomás Ille. With largely authentic instrumentation, the "Symphonic Suite" unfolds the contrast between the sad world of the village girl Jenůfa and the cheerful dances of the village.

Shostakovich_Janáček_Puccini

Anneliese Brost Musikforum Ruhr

Mozart’s opera Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), based on Pierre Beaumarchais’ play, is a masterpiece of wit, intrigue, and musical brilliance. Premiering in 1786, the opera quickly became a sensation for its complex characters, sharp social commentary, and the sheer exuberance of its music. The overture, a standalone gem in its own right, encapsulates the opera’s spirit in a concise and vibrant orchestral showcase.

The overture opens with a bold, energetic theme that sets the stage for the drama to unfold. Immediately, we are introduced to the opera’s key themes and characters through snippets of melodies that hint at the various relationships and conflicts to come. The lively Allegro section contrasts with a more lyrical Andante, where Mozart explores a tender, heartfelt theme, perhaps hinting at the romantic entanglements and emotional depths of the story.

Mozart in Vienna

University of Redlands

Waltzes, polkas, blissful operetta charm, sparkling like the sound of champagne: this is what the Viennese masters from the great Strauss family stand for, as does Franz Lehár. Atmospheric opera moments by contemporary Giacomo Puccini introduce the gala before the imaginary curtain rises to forays into operetta classics such as "The Merry Widow", "Giuditta" and "The Bat". Waltzes and lively polkas provide the furious finale. The star guest is the Polish soprano Magdalena Lucjan, who studied in Vienna and thus brings the flair of the Danube metropolis directly to the Rhine.

New Year's Splendor - Strauss & Puccini

Cologne Philharmonie

Waltzes, polkas, blissful operetta charm, sparkling like the sound of champagne: this is what the Viennese masters from the great Strauss family stand for, as does Franz Lehár. Atmospheric opera moments by contemporary Giacomo Puccini introduce the gala before the imaginary curtain rises to forays into operetta classics such as "The Merry Widow," "Giuditta," and "The Bat." Waltzes and lively polkas provide the furious finale. The star guest is the Polish soprano Magdalena Lucjan, who studied in Vienna and thus brings the flair of the Danube metropolis directly to the Rhine.

Museum Ludwig

Waltzes, polkas, blissful operetta charm, sparkling like the sound of champagne: this is what the Viennese masters from the great Strauss family stand for, as does Franz Lehár. Atmospheric opera moments by contemporary Giacomo Puccini introduce the gala before the imaginary curtain rises to forays into operetta classics such as "The Merry Widow", "Giuditta" and "The Bat". Waltzes and lively polkas then provide the furious finale. The star guest is the Polish soprano Magdalena Lucjan, who studied in Vienna and thus brings the flair of the Danube metropolis directly to the Rhine.

In 2022, Hayoung Choi convincingly claimed the first prize in the Queen Elisabeth Competition for Cello, swiftly ascending to the grandest stages. During the Elisabeth Week, seize the unique opportunity to witness her artistry up close, alongside leaders of the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra and musicians from the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel. Together, they captivate with Puccini’s poignant Crisantemi and Tchaikovsky's String Sextet in d.

Elisabeth Week: chamber music with Hayoung Choi

AMUZ (Festival van Vlaanderen Antwerpen)

Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel

With the sadistic police chief Scarpia, Giacomo Puccini enriched opera literature with one of its most abysmal characters.
The painter Cavaradossi falls into his clutches when he helps a political prisoner to escape.
But for Scarpia, Cavaradossi is just a decoy through which he can finally win the celebrated singer Tosca.

German Oper am Rhein

Opera Classica Europa welcomes the new year with a top-class concert on Wednesday, January 15, 2025, in the Alte Oper Frankfurt and will play the most beautiful melodies from opera and operetta, including "Dein ist mein ganzes Herz", "Lippen schweigen", "Das Wolgalied", "Casta Diva" and "Nessun Dorma".

Big names in the opera world, such as star soprano Elena Moșuc or world-class tenor Martin Muehle, who will be appearing at this New Year's concert, are not usually seen together on one evening. The overall winner of the 1st Opera Singing Competition in Honor of Romana Vaccaro, baritone Hongyu Chen and several other opera soloists will also be heard.

New Year's Concert

Alte Oper Frankfurt

Special concert 2025

While La Bohème consists only of poetry and not of action, it is said that with Tosca it is the other way around: only action, no poetry. Even the librettist Giuseppe Giacosa considered Sardou's original completely unsuitable for an opera. “What made Puccini come to terms with such a real and dealing with a brutal subject whose actors are little more than puppets entangled in a highly intelligent, cleverly designed plot? ”asked the music critic Mosco Carner. Maybe just that? For over 20 years Willy Decker's classic production of Puccini's Sex and Crime masterpiece has been a repertory perennial.

The Staatstheater Stuttgart

Each ticket entitles you to one complimentary drink. Have your ticket scanned at any of Barbican’s bars on Level G or Level -1 for one single 175ml measure of house wine, 330ml bottle of standard beer, or standard soft drink, subject to our bars' stocks. Valid only on Wed 1 Jan 2025.

New Year's Day Proms

Barbican Centre

In an atmospheric atmosphere, Katrina Taynara (soprano), Marco Antonio Rivera (tenor), and Alberto Rodriguez (baritone) present a musical variety that promises a very entertaining evening. The Opera Classica Europa Orchestra plays in salon formation.

The program invites you into the world of famous musicals with beautiful melodies such as "The music of the night" from the musical "The Phantom of the Opera". With Marco Antonio Rivera, who was a soloist in "The Phantom of the Opera" in Hamburg for a long time, visitors can experience a former ensemble member of the famous musical.

Hospital Church Wetzlar

Return for a Christmas treat or experience your first opera with Puccini’s famous love story.

Royal Opera House

You can simply go to a concert at the Philharmonie, spontaneously, during your lunch break – and with free admission: every Wednesday at 13:00 between September and June. The programme lasts 40 to 50 minutes: chamber music, piano works or a percussion duo – everything from Tchaikovsky to tango. Members of the Berliner Philharmoniker and the Karajan Academy regularly perform, as well as guests from the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester, the Staatskapelle Berlin and the Berlin music conservatories. As can be expected at a lunch concert, catering is available from 12 noon until shortly before the concert begins.

Lunch concert

Berliner Philharmoniker

Experience the poignant beauty of Puccini's "La rondine" under the baton of Sir Antonio Pappano at the Barbican on Tuesday, 10 December 2024, at 7pm. This concert performance, featuring surtitles for an immersive experience, showcases the talents of Nadine Sierra as Magda, alongside Serena Gamberoni, Michael Fabiano, Paul Appleby, Ashley Riches, Sarah Dufresne, Angela Schisano, and Marvic Monreal in supporting roles. The London Symphony Chorus and Orchestra bring to life this story of love constrained by societal norms, glowing with melody and orchestral color.

This special evening marks nearly 30 years since Sir Antonio Pappano's first encounter with the LSO, revisiting the opera that captures the longing for love against a backdrop of family disapproval. The performance promises a rhapsodic and romantic journey, light on its feet yet rich with emotion, concluding at approximately 9:05 pm after a 20-minute interval. A repeat performance will be held on 12 December.

Tickets are available at various price points, with a £4 booking fee per online or phone transaction. Discounts are available for multiple bookings, young people, students, and groups, with free companion tickets for Barbican Access Members. Don't miss this opportunity to dive deeper into the world of Italian opera with Sir Antonio Pappano and the LSO in a season that explores music filled with love and passion.

Puccini La rondine

If you picture a stolen kiss between two well-dressed Edwardians in an Italian poppy field, you will probably find yourself humming 'Chi il Bel Sogno di Doretta'  from Puccini’s opera La rondine. The famous scene from the film A Room with a View brilliantly captures the opera’s central theme: longing for love against a background of family disapproval. 

London Symphony Orchestra/Sir Antonio Pappano

Join us for the 2024 Holiday Concert and meet our two special guests who will bring you holiday cheer! Singer and actor Kate Merryman from central Ohio will lead the audience in a sing-along featuring Christmas Memories and other holiday selections. Additionally, the Miami University Steel Drum Band will showcase its unique Caribbean sounds. This promises to be a memorable concert that will get your family in the holiday spirit and entertain you with seasonal favorites and surprises!

Sounds of the Holiday Season

Ohio Wesleyan University

Most music lovers are familiar with the “Great B’s,” Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms, but this is not the only alliterative group of brilliant composers. In our December concert, we invite listeners to celebrate the “Great P’s.” Highlights include three selections from operas by the master of drama, Giacomo Puccini, and a violin concerto by the master of orchestration, Sergei Prokofiev, featuring rising-star violin soloist Beau Henson. The concert opens with music by film score composer Rachel Portman, and includes the moving Agnus Dei from the Polish Requiem by the brilliant composer Krzysztof Penderecki.

Great P’s of Music

Ames City Hall

A garret in Paris on a cold winter’s day around Christmas. Rodolfo, a writer, and Marcello, a painter, are working on their masterpieces. They have no money to buy food, pay the rent or fuel the stove. Colline, a philosopher, returns from the pawn shop empty handed, having failed to get rid of some books. Only Schaunard, a musician, has managed to come up with some victuals, kindling, cigars and cash, so off they go to Café Momus - without Rodolfo, who’s trying to work. Mimì, the embroiderer from next door, arrives to ask for a match to light her candle with. She collapses and loses her key; cue for Rodolfo to fall in love with Mimì, who is terminally ill with TB, although he dumps her two months later because the prospect of her ailment getting steadily worse in her freezing home is too much for him. Six months go by. Musetta, Marcello’s ex, arrives with Mimì, whose condition is grave. Musetta sells some earrings with a view to buying medicine; Colline gives up his coat. Gratitude and happiness for a short while. Rodolfo thinks Mimì is sleeping and her body regenerating, …but in fact she’s dead.

“How ice-cold is this little hand” – a hand held by the poet Rodolfo in the darkness of his artists’ commune! The ice-cold hand belongs to the seamstress Mimì – with whom he proceeds to throw himself into the Christmas season in Paris. Only a few months later, though, she finds living with Rodolfo torturous. It is not jealousy, however, which explains Rodolfo’s behaviour: he knows that Mimì will not last the year. "La Bohème" was based on Henri Murger’s extremely successful novel "Les scènes de la vie de bohème", which had entranced Puccini when he first read it. His wish to set the tale to music was so strong that he even risked ruining his friendship with Ruggero Leoncavallo, who was also working on a opera version of it. Today, the opera premiered in 1896 is considered one of the most popular stage works of all times – thanks to an overabundance of melodies and Puccini’s genius for character portraits.

British-Italian tenor Freddie De Tommaso makes his eagerly anticipated company debut as Tosca’s revolutionary lover, Cavaradossi, and powerhouse American baritone Quinn Kelsey is the sadistic chief of police Scarpia. Maestro Xian Zhang conducts the electrifying score, which features some of Puccini’s most memorable melodies.

Met Opera: Tosca

University of Warwick

Extraordinary Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen stars as the passionate title diva in David McVicar’s thrilling production, transmitted live from the Metropolitan Opera stage to cinemas on November 23. British-Italian tenor Freddie De Tommaso makes his eagerly anticipated company debut as Tosca’s revolutionary lover, Cavaradossi, and powerhouse American baritone Quinn Kelsey is the sadistic chief of police Scarpia. Maestro Xian Zhang conducts the electrifying score, which features some of Puccini’s most memorable melodies.

Metropolitan Opera Encore in HD – Tosca

Ridgefield Playhouse

Starring Corinne Winters, Joshua Guerrero, Levi Hernandez

Puccini’s MANON LESCAUT

The George Washington University

Extraordinary Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen stars as the passionate diva in David McVicar’s thrilling production, broadcast live from the Metropolitan Opera stage to cinemas on November 23. British-Italian tenor Freddie De Tommaso makes his eagerly anticipated company debut as Tosca’s revolutionary lover, Cavaradossi, and powerhouse American baritone Quinn Kelsey is the sadistic chief of police Scarpia. Maestro Xian Zhang conducts the electrifying score, which features some of Puccini’s most memorable melodies.

The Met Live in HD: Tosca (Puccini)

The Capitol Horsham

The Met: Live In Hd – Tosca

Guild Hall

The concert features favourite arias and extended excerpts from Giacomo Puccini's varied and vibrant career. From rare earlier works Le villi and Edgar to glorious highlights from masterpieces such as Tosca, La fanciulla del West and La bohème, The Puccini Collection celebrates one of the most popular and beloved opera composers.  

The Puccini Collection 

Glasgow Royal Concert Hall

Usher Hall, Edinburgh

NEC Prep: Youth Symphony Fall Performance

New England Conservatory

La Bohème returns to Opera San José in an exuberant production set in Christmas-time Paris following the Great War. In this tantalizing tale of young artists living on the edge, poet Rodolfo is implored by Mimi, his alluring and delicate neighbor, to help light her last candle. Immediately infatuated, they embark on a dizzying and ultimately tragic relationship. From bustling cafés and raucous parties to spirited debates, the pair, along with their band of idealist friends, chase happiness against impossible odds. OSJ’s Stage Director in Residence Michelle Ainna Cuizon makes her mainstage debut helming this masterpiece; OSJ Music Director Joseph Marcheso will conduct.

California Theatre

Life's Journey

East Tennessee State University

Featuring the final acts of Puccini's La Bohème, Madama Butterfly, and Manon Lescaut.

Morte e Vita

Cio-Cio-San, a young Japanese girl, known as Butterfly, learns to trust and love an American naval officer, the reckless, pleasure-seeking B.F. Pinkerton. But when Pinkerton’s intentions are finally revealed, Butterfly’s dreams are destroyed in ways of no return.

The Brown Theatre

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

The Chinese princess Turandot swears that she will not marry any man – except for the one who can solve her three-question riddle. Giacomo Puccini's final, unfinished opera tackles fairy-tale and socio-philosophical questions at the same time. The OPERA’s new production is staged by acclaimed choreographer Dóra Barta – a woman interpreting the most mysterious female title role in the world opera. Her staging approaches the work through the exciting stage language of movement and physical theatre as well as from the perspective of commedia dell'arte, from which Carlo Gozzi also drew inspiration at the time for his play on which the opera is based on. The abstract nature of the language of dance and movement helps to bring the philosophical content of the work into focus, while the aspect of power also remains important, because Turandot’s father, the emperor is not only looking for a husband for her daughter, but also for the future ruler for China…

Giacomo Puccini

Composer

Events

Upcoming events

Oct 13, 2024 - May 28, 2025

Tosca · Staatsoper Hamburg

Nov 13, 2024 - Jun 6, 2025

La Bohème · The Metropolitan Opera

Mar 15 - Apr 12, 2025

La Bohème · Lyric Opera of Chicago

Mar 15 - Jun 12, 2025

Tosca: Giacomo Puccini · Staatstheater Wiesbaden

Mar 21 - Apr 4, 2025

La Fanciulla del West (The Girl of the West) · Staatsoper Hamburg

Past events

Mar 29 - Jun 12, 2025

Bohemia · Theater Aachen

Mar 28, 2025

Civic Night at Lyric: La Bohème · Lyric Opera of Chicago

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