Composer

Passion and power collide as Giacomo Puccini’s TOSCA returns to Bozeman. This high-stakes drama between a passionate singer, a revolutionary artist, and a ruthless chief of police features some of the most famous and beautiful music ever written for the opera stage. Montana audiences will rediscover why TOSCA remains one of the most thrilling and popular operas of all time.

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Tosca

Ellen Theatre

SFCM Opera and Musical Theatre presents beloved acts from the elegant romance of La Rondine by Puccini as well as the comedic Le Nozze di Figaro, known for its witty plot, beautiful arias, and intricate ensembles. Featuring a double cast and performed with SFCM orchestra students.

SFCM Opera Presents: Season Finale Opera Showcase

San Francisco Conservatory of Music

Join us in the beautiful surroundings of the Dorchester Manor House garden to enjoy one of the most popular operas worldwide, performed for us by Regents Opera.

La Bohème in The Manor House Garden

Dorchester Abbey

Katherine Fisfis, soprano

Northwestern Bienen School of Music

Experience the bittersweet wonder of Puccini's beloved masterpiece once more in this glorious production from esteemed director Ellen Kent. Heading out on a final farewell tour in 2026, 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

Grand Opera House York

Teatro Lirico d’Europe and the Connecticut Virtuosi presents the Tribute to Pavarotti concert program with projections that tell the story of each piece will feature highlights from: Giordano ANDREA CHÉNIER, Bellini NORMA, Verdi IL TROVATORE, Puccini TOSCA, Verdi LA TRAVIATA, Donizetti LA FILLE DU REGIMENT, Puccini LA FANCIULLA DEL WEST, Puccini TURANDOT, and other operas associated with the great tenor’s career plus several romanzas and canzones that Pavarotti’s popularity brought to the attention of the entire world!

Tribute to Pavarotti

First Presbyterian Church of Hartford

Puccini’s one-act opera does not end with a tragic operatic death. The body of the rich Buoso Donati is already laid out when the curtain rises, his loudly lamenting relatives gathered around. But appearances can be deceiving. Puccini paints a family portrait of a shameless and greedy community of heirs. Even shrewd mastermind Gianni Schicchi is only out for himself. This lively ensemble piece is tailor-made for the members of the International Opera Studio. Up-and-coming director Lilli Fischer combines Puccini’s only comic opera with a newly developed prequel.

Gianni Schicchi

Zurich Opera House

Symphony VI: Puccini's TOSCA in concert performance

Port Angeles High School

Four artists struggle to make ends meet while chasing their dreams. The passionate bohemians are determined their bonds of friendship will sustain them… until love complicates everything.

La Bohème

The Long Center for the Performing Arts

Step into a world of passion, tragedy, and deception with Puccini’s Il trittico, a trio of one-act operas led by world-renowned opera conductor Gianandrea Noseda. Il tabarro unveils a shadowy tale of love and betrayal along the Seine. Suor Angelica plunges into the depths of sacrifice behind convent walls. Gianni Schicchi turns deception into delight in a sharp-witted comedy of intrigue. Three stories, three distinct worlds—one unforgettable evening of Opera in Concert.

Opera in Concert: Puccini’s Il trittico

Kennedy Center

The world premiere of Giacomo Puccini's final masterpiece took place at La Scala on April 25, 1926. The composer had died in Brussels on November 29, 1924, without being able to complete the score. Arturo Toscanini had asked Franco Alfano to prepare a finale, which remained problematic. On the night of the premiere, Toscanini placed his baton on the last note composed by Puccini, upon Liù's death: a gesture that has remained in the history of La Scala and is also remembered in the production conceived by Davide Livermore for Puccini's centenary. A rich production, combining technological marvels and artisanal expertise, revived under the baton of Nicola Luisotti.

Turandot

Pentagramma Ducale. Young talents put to the test This is a new series of events dedicated to young artists from the Academy of Advanced Studies: three sessions designed to introduce the public to musical theater through the talent of the next generation, combining training, outreach, and performance.

Pentagramma Ducale

Opera Carlo Felice Genova

Donizetti Verdi Puccini

San Carlo Theatre

A new Tomer Zvulun production of Turandot opens exactly 100 years after its premiere! This opera, with its lush musical tapestry and complex psychological layers, explores courage, identity, and love’s transformative power.

Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre

One of opera’s most enduring love stories, set in the world’s most romantic city, rendered with the most vibrant characters and melodies. Vancouver Opera Music Director Emeritus Jonathan Darlington returns to conduct a masterpiece that transports us to the heart of bohemian Paris.

Queen Elizabeth Theatre

From the genius behind La Bohème, Tosca, and Madama Butterfly comes Puccini’s gripping one-act masterpiece of passion and betrayal. Set aboard a barge on the dark waters of the Seine, Il Tabarro (The Cloak) simmers with jealousy, longing, and fatal secrets. With its brooding atmosphere and sweeping score, this rarely performed gem offers a raw, emotional punch.

Presented in special collaboration with the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony Orchestra, this emotionally charged production showcases Puccini’s lush orchestration and dramatic power—and marks the completion of FM Opera’s journey through Il Trittico, following Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi nearly a decade ago.

Il Tabarro

NDSU Challey School of Music

To close the season in dramatic fashion, the FMSO joins forces with the Fargo-Moorhead Opera.

Puccini: Il Tabarro a Co-Production with FM Opera

North Dakota State University

Dr. Paul Thornock is Director of Music and Organist at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Savannah, Georgia, where he conducts the semi-professional Cathedral Choir, the fully professional Choral Scholars, and acts as Artistic Director for the Friends of Cathedral Music concert series.

Symphonie Fantastique!

Lucas Theatre For the Arts

Symphony Orchestra

Music Building and Recital Hall

This melodious and iconic opera is so beloved and integral to us, from the opening atmospheric choral triads of Butterfly's entrance to the profoundly moving dénouement, the epitome of operatic tragedy.  Butterfly reaches into our inmost souls and shows us so many things about ourselves and our society.

Madama Butterfly

Church of the Redeemer in Baltimore

Cynthia Hu, soprano

Adam Uliassi, trombone

To mark the 100th anniversary of the first posthumous performance of Giacomo Puccini’s Turandot (Teatro alla Scala in Milan, April 25, 1926), the Teatro Carlo Felice presents In search of Turandot, a multi-stage experience for families through the streets of Genoa (based on an idea by Angelica Ditaranto). Following the story of the Ice Princess, participants of all ages will be guided on a journey through music, storytelling, and games, encountering characters, atmospheres, and the magic of the opera. Through clues, challenges, and moments of listening, the city will become the stage for a fairy tale to be experienced together, step by step.

In search of Turandot

Carlo Felice Theater

Il Trittico

University of Texas at Austin

Can one choice change everything? Edgar, just the second opera that Giacomo Puccini ever composed, tells the story of a man torn between the promise of virtue and the allure of vice, where love and desire collide with devastating consequences. Moments of striking lyricism underscore a tale of indecision, self-delusion, and betrayal that leads to ruin. With the MN Opera Orchestra and MN Opera Chorus on stage behind a cast of singers, this rare concert presentation offers a tantalizing glimpse into the mind of a master still discovering his voice, just a few years before his greatest triumphs.

Edgar in Concert

Ordway Center for the Performing Arts

Nagasaki, Japan, ca. 1900: Pinkerton, a lieutenant in the American navy, has fallen in love with Cio-Cio-San, also known as “Butterfly”. The Japanese ritual marriage ceremony is merely a farce to him – and shortly thereafter, Pinkerton’s “plaything” is alone again, with their child. Three years later, he returns to Japan, but not because of Butterfly...

Hamburg State Opera

Step into the fairy-tale world of Turandot, where love and destiny collide. From the iconic aria “Nessun Dorma” to the dramatic clash of heart and duty, Puccini’s lush melodies and grand orchestration bring this epic tale of sacrifice, love, and defiance to life. This unforgettable journey will leave you captivated by one of opera’s most powerful stories.

Puccini’s Turandot

Segerstrom Center for the Arts

Step into the mythical world of Turandot, where love and destiny collide. From the iconic aria “Nessun Dorma” to the dramatic clash of heart and duty, Puccini’s lush melodies and grand orchestration bring this epic tale of sacrifice, love, and defiance to life. This unforgettable journey will leave you captivated by one of opera’s most powerful stories.

Puccini's Turandot

Everybody to the Opera, Kids! Vol. V

Teatro alla Scala

Turandot refuses to marry by setting an impossible condition: Whoever wants her for his wife must solve three riddles. Anyone who can’t, is publicly executed. Prince Calaf, a refugee stranded in Peking, falls hopelessly under Turandot’s spell. The Princess is shaken to the core when he manages to answer all three. Turandot unleashes a clear struggle for power, which ultimately claims innocent victims.

Oper Frankfurt

Italian vocal artistry enjoys a reputation like no other—and thanks to Franco Vassallo, audiences at the Rudolfinum will have the chance to experience it first-hand. The celebrated baritone, known for iconic roles such as Figaro and Falstaff, will perform arias from his signature repertoire. But the evening won’t be devoted to opera alone: he will also present songs by Ralph Vaughan Williams, inspired by the rugged beauty of the Scottish landscape.

Czech Chamber Music Society • Franco Vassallo

Dvořák Hall Rudolfinum

Madame Butterfly

Giacomo Puccini’s Madama Butterfly returns to Bass Performance Hall in a stunning full production from Fort Worth Opera that delivers the heartbreak and beauty of this iconic work. Featuring breathtaking sets, richly detailed costumes, and the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra bringing Puccini’s achingly beautiful score to life, this unforgettable story of love, cultural blindness, and a mother’s sacrifice remains as powerful today as when Fort Worth Opera first performed it in 1947. Anchored by one of the most exquisite scores in the operatic canon, Butterfly is a poignant tribute to a woman’s steadfast devotion and maturing will — and a signature work of the company’s 80-year legacy.

Bass Performance Hall

A thrilling pace, a deadly love triangle and determination in the face of evil: the perfect recipe for one of the most celebrated operas in history. Acclaimed Metropolitan Opera Stage Director Gregory Keller, Music Director Courtney Lewis and world-class vocalists transform Jacoby Symphony Hall for this powerful production of Tosca. Immerse yourself in Giacomo Puccini’s dramatic arias and soaring orchestral passages as they unfold in a visual and auditory masterpiece. Extraordinary musicianship and captivating 30-foot-tall projections elevate the emotions and grandeur of Puccini's masterpiece to new heights.

Jacoby Symphony Hall

A thriller-like opera set in a time of political unrest and war. At the center are the opera singer Floria Tosca, her lover, the artist and freedom fighter Mario Cavaradossi, and the cruel, all-powerful police chief Scarpia. A triangle drama created for Stubø's minimalist and deeply personal direction.

On the intimate stage of the Folkoperan, Tosca becomes a gripping, intimate study of passion, abuse of power, rebellion and terror. A deadly drama with the opera singer Tosca and Puccini's incomparably beautiful music at its center.

The Folk Opera

La bohème

There are few operas, which from the very first bar endure such intense pressure, few in which the temperature swings from ice-cold calculation to overheating in mere seconds. And scarcely any in which private entanglement and personal tragedy are so interwoven with political attitudes in historical accuracy. Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca has electrified audiences since its world premiere. The shock wave emitted by the opera was so strong that decades later many reactions still tend to point to the bewilderment and overpowering of those affected rather than the qualities of the piece itself and its love triangle surrounding the singer Floria Tosca, the painter Mario Cavaradossi and the chief of police Baron Scarpia. The artistic world of the protagonist couple, Tosca and Cavaradossi, is no colouristic ingredient here, but rather defines the profile of its characters – it justifies Tosca’s eccentricity, just as it does Cavaradossi’s liberality and also explains the singer’s pronounced self-confidence: The heroine of the stage becomes a heroine in real life. Scarpia’s appearance must also be understood as the emergence of his unleashed totalitarian power, and his sexual sadism still today as one of the truly scandalous moments of opera literature. The historical detail is certainly no staffage, but rather forms the, “precondition of the conflict between the representatives of two opposing social systems” (Norbert Christen) in a time of crisis. With his mish-mash of musical recognition motifs, which, with the exception of the rigid Scarpia chords, sensitively adjust to the situations, Puccini achieves a new dimension of through-composed operatic structure – in the intensive cohesion of the score, he nevertheless creates islands in which reflection compacts itself into moments of the highest possible arioso intensity.

TOSCA

Max-Joseph-Platz

No other work reflects Puccini's search for new forms of musical theatre like his three-act trilogy IL TRITTICO, which premiered in 1918. In three pieces with different colours and temperatures, he once again brought to the stage what Italian opera could be in those years. In a condensed version, the second and third parts of the triptych now return to the stage of the Deutsche Oper in Karabulut's colourful production: SUOR ANGELICA, a piece with an all-female cast, is unique in opera history and revolves around questions of life and death and the possibilities in between. In her feminist interpretation, Karabulut explores the possibilities of (female) self-determination within a closed system. GIANNI SCHICCHI, on the other hand, follows the tradition of commedia dell'arte, placing humans at the centre as players and greedy deceivers. With her keen sense of timing and a captivating ensemble, Karabulut reveals the bizarre depths of a hypocritical family gathering once again around the deathbed of their patriarch.

Suor Angelica / Gianni Schicchi

Deutsche Oper Berlin

One day. Three ways to die. Director Eirik Stubø takes on one of opera literature's most multifaceted portraits of women and with perhaps the most beautiful music of all - Puccini's Tosca.

Norrlandsoperan

Bella Italia

Granada Theatre

Featuring an impressive cast and accompanied by a live Orchestra numbering over 30 musicians.

The Gordon Craig Theatre

Opera without words

Malmo Live Concert Hall

This spring’s double bill pairs two contrasting one-act operas that explore themes of familial obligation and personal sacrifice. Rossini’s La Cambiale di Matrimonio (The Marriage Contract) is a fast-moving farce about an arranged marriage gone awry, featuring spirited ensembles and the youthful energy of Rossini’s earliest operatic style. Puccini’s Suor Angelica, part of his Il trittico trilogy, tells the poignant story of a noblewoman forced into a convent, whose encounter with her estranged aunt leads to a heartrending climax. Sung in Italian with English surtitles, these one-act operas offer a night of contrasting emotions, memorable characters, and compelling scores.

Rossini and Puccini, Operas of Comedy and Consequence

Michigan State University

Sunderland Empire

This opera, which Puccini himself considered his favorite and best work, moves everyone who hears it. In the summer of 1900, Puccini saw David Belasco’s theater piece »Madame Butterfly« in a London Theater, and was indelibly touched. It was a tragic story of very human proportions, coupled with an old-fashioned dose of Far East exoticism. As Belasco did, Puccini set his opera in the present, in the year 1904, the year of its world premiere. The strict rules and customs of Japanese society are confronted by the western world, in the form of the American marine lieutenant Pinkerton. For him, his fictitious marriage with the young geisha Cio-Cio San, also called »Butterfly«, is nothing more than an exotic romantic adventure. For her, though, it is the chance of a lifetime: Fascinated by the notion of the different, freer world that her lover could give her, she’s ready to break with everything she’s ever known. She believes steadfastly that Pinkerton will return to her, even long after he has left Japan. And when he finally does return, after three years, it spells disaster.

Oper Leipzig

In a hallmark of his partnership with the CSO, Riccardo Muti takes center stage to conduct selections from Verdi’s enthralling, passion-filled operas. The program also features a lineup of treasured Italian opera repertoire performed by internationally acclaimed singers and the Chicago Symphony Chorus.

An Opera Night with Riccardo Muti

Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Extraordinary artists of The Glenn Gould School’s vocal program and the Royal Conservatory Orchestra present an Italian comedic double bill in Koerner Hall: Rossini's La cambiale di matrimonio and Puccini's Gianni Schicchi. Conducted by Gordon Gerrard and directed by Stephen Carr.

The Glenn Gould School Spring Opera: Serenata Italiana

The Royal Conservatory of Music

Puccini first showcased his operatic voice through the orchestra alone with his Capriccio Sinfonico. Marking the start of his signature musical style, it blends the lyrical and dramatic qualities that later came to define his iconic operas.

The Cunning Little Vixen

MediaCityUK

The Alban Arena

Members of the QCSO present an intimate evening of expressive beauty from Beethoven’s elegant Sixth String Quartet to contemporary masterpieces by Caroline Shaw and Philip Glass.

Up Close with Blueprint

Figge Art Museum

Great Choral Symphony – Concert with the Singakademie Frankfurt (Oder)

Kleist Forum

Meet Cio-Cio-San — known as Madama Butterfly — a faithful but doomed geisha in love with B.F. Pinkerton. Everyone but Butterfly knows the Navy lieutenant will break her heart and ruin her life.

Opera newcomers will be swept away by the familiar melodies, gorgeous costuming, and colorful sets — and seasoned opera fans will thrill at this beautiful, thoughtful production from Lyric Opera’s own Matthew Ozawa that brings new dimension to an age-old story.

Lyric Opera House

Puccini’s final masterpiece gets the full POP treatment in this stunning new production of Turandot, set in a magical world of ice and snow—frozen, like the heart of its title character. Featuring real-life husband and wife 2024 Richard Tucker Award-winning tenor Clay Hilley as Calàf and POP favorite Sara Duchovnay as Liù, this production brings Puccini’s epic score to life with grandeur, grit, and plenty of high drama. In a kingdom ruled by riddles and fear, Turandot has vowed never to marry, punishing all who dare pursue her. But when the mysterious Prince Calàf answers her challenge, everything begins to change—including Turandot herself. Packed with soaring arias, a massive chorus, and the world’s most famous showstopper, “Nessun Dorma,” Turandot is opera at its most powerful. Performed at the Aratani Theatre, one of LA’s most beloved cultural venues located in the heart of Little Tokyo, this unique production with a fairytale twist promises to be unforgettable.

Japanese American Cultural & Community Center

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.

Ellen Kent: The Farewell Tour - Madama Butterfly

New Victoria Theatre

Get ready for an opera of high-stakes drama, breathtaking spectacle, and one of the most legendary scores ever composed. Puccini’s final masterpiece, Turandot, comes to life in a production that honors the grandeur of its 1926 La Scala premiere while pushing boundaries with stunning visual technology. Seamlessly blending innovation with tradition, this epic tale is more immersive and electrifying than ever.At the heart of the story is the cold and enigmatic Princess Turandot, who tests her suitors with three impossible riddles—failure means death. But when the fearless Prince Calaf succeeds, the real challenge begins—not of intellect, but of love. Will he melt Turandot’s icy heart, or will fate take yet another victim?

Broward Center For The Performing Arts

Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County

Get ready for high-stakes drama, breathtaking spectacle and one of the most legendary scores ever composed. Puccini’s final masterpiece, Turandot, comes to life in a production that honors the grandeur of its 1926 La Scala premiere while pushing boundaries with stunning visual technology. Seamlessly blending innovation with tradition, this epic tale is more immersive and electrifying than ever.

Ziff Ballet Opera House

There is perhaps nothing simpler than La Bohème and yet nothing more moving: a young man and a young girl meet, fall in love, are separated by life and yet find each other again before a final farewell.

In this work, Puccini was able to create unforgettable images: Mimi entering, like a muse, into the poet's room, the love duet under the moon, the illuminated Grand Café Momus, the impossible farewells in the icy morning, death finally on a miserable bed.

La Bohème evokes what haunts us all: love that blazes and carries us to heaven, youth that flees, and time that destroys everything. In 1896, Puccini still had many masterpieces ahead of him, but perhaps he would never again find this clarity and splendor of melody.

Maison de la Culture Clermont-Ferrand

New Theatre Oxford

Madama Butterfly - Ellen Kent’s Farewell Opera Tour - featuring the Opera International Kyiv, Ukraine

Cliffs Pavilion

Sister Angelica and two lay sisters have been late for chapel. Angelica has already done her penance, so the mistress of the novices imposes one on the lay sisters. The Monitor then chides some of the other sisters for minor transgressions, but allows the nuns to have some relaxation time in the garden before they must return to their labors. They enjoy the sight of the late afternoon sunlight falling upon the fountain.

The sisters’ talk turns to their lingering desires for the worldly pleasures they used to enjoy. Sister Angelica denies that she has any such desires, but the others know that she is lying, for she longs for some news of her family. She has been at the convent for seven years without hearing from them, and the sisters believe that she is a princess who was sent to the convent as a punishment for some mysterious transgression.

Their speculations are interrupted when a nursing sister rushes in and asks Sister Angelica, who is expert in such matters, for an herbal remedy to treat another nun who has been stung by a wasp. Then two alms-collecting nuns arrive with provisions. One of them announces that a rich-looking carriage is standing outside the convent gate. Angelica becomes anxious and asks her to describe the carriage in detail, but the nun can only say that it was very fine. The convent bell rings; Angelica begins to pray. The other nuns pity Angelica’s anxiety and tell her that they hope it is a visit from her family.

Suor Angelica + Concert

OLPH Catholic Academy of Brooklyn

Music Hall proudly launches its Classic Opera Series with Puccini’s masterwork — Turandot In-Concert — a sweeping musical experience that brings grand opera to the heart of Detroit.

Turandot in Concert

Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts

Soloists of the Maggio Academy

Paggeria Parco Mediceo di Pratolino

Six young people eke out a living with precarious work: Poet Rodolfo works at a newspaper and dreams of his breakthrough as a playwright. Marcello paints advertisements on walls. Philosopher Colline lives off private lessons. Musician Schaunard tinkers his way through bars. Mimì embroiders flowers on jewelry ribbons. Musetta keeps wealthy lovers.

Halle Opera House

This operatic tour de force features highlights from two of the greatest operas ever written—Bizet’s Carmen and Puccini’s Turandot—in an electrifying concert with acclaimed Canadian tenor David Pomeroy,  soprano Krista da Silva, soprano Andrea Hill, mezzo-soprano Barbara King and a stellar cast from the Calgary Concert Opera Company.

An Afternoon at the Opera

Arts Commons

La Bohème, composed by Giacomo Puccini, is one of the most beloved and frequently performed operas in the world's operatic repertoire. Premiered on February 1, 1896, at the Teatro Regio in Turin, under the baton of the young Arturo Toscanini, the work was enthusiastically received and established Puccini as one of the greatest composers of his time. Along with Madama Butterfly and Tosca, La Bohème holds a special place in the public's hearts for its moving humanity and the intensity of its emotions.

Riberas del Guadaira Auditorium Theatre

Calderón Theater

Alicante Main Theatre

Social Theatre, Basauri

Great Falla Theatre

Jean Alary Theater

Auditorium & Convention Center The Batel

House of Culture

Great Theatre of Elche

Serrano Theatre

Buero Vallejo's Theatre

Huesca Congress Palace

Theater Le Blanc-Mesnil

Breton Theatre, Logroño

Margarita Lozano Auditorium

La Colonne Theater

Massy Opera

Mira Theatre

Adolfo Marsillach Auditorium Theatre

Serantes Cultural Hall

Teulada Auditorium

Boulevard theatre

Torrent Auditorium

Municipal Theater of Torrevieja

Olympia Theatre, Valencia

Principal Theatre, Zaragoza

Liverpool Empire Theatre

Puccini's most beloved opera and one of the most performed in the repertoire, La bohème takes us through the streets of the Latin Quarter in 19th century Paris when the poor embroideress Mimì has a fateful chance encounter with the poet Rodolfo. Laugh and cry as a group of friends struggle and celebrate through the Bohemian lifestyle and experience the heartbreak of a lover's impending demise.

Sarasota Opera House

Beethoven & Bohème

Northern Virginia Community College - Alexandria Campus

The George Washington Masonic National Memorial

Celebrate Valentine’s Day with an evening of luscious symphonic classics offering some of the most romantic melodies ever written. The concert features the sensuous slow movements from three of the finest concertos for piano and Richard Addinsall’s Warsaw Concerto, as well as love themes from silver screen masterpieces by Ennio Morricone, James Horner and John Williams Also included is Wagner’s musical love letter and Tchaikovsky’s passionate overture to Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet. Make sure you make a date and treat a loved one!

Smooth Valentine Classics Romantic classics for a special evening

Lighthouse, Poole's Centre for the Arts

This concert, in the form of a musical tour of Europe, begins in Italy with the Preludio sinfonico, which Puccini composed while studying at the Milan Conservatory. This visionary and spirited score heralds future masterpieces. Pablo Sainz-Villegas, one of the greatest guitarists of our time, continues the journey in Spain with Rodrigo's famous Concierto de Aranjuez.

La Saint-Valentin avec Roméo et Juliette

Grand Théâtre de Québec

Senbla presents Ellen Kent’s Farewell Opera Tour featuring Opera International Kyiv, Ukraine, with Highly-Praised Soloists and Full Orchestra.

The Alhambra Theatre

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.

The relationship between Cio-Cio-San, called »Butterfly«, and US American marine officer Benjamin F. Pinkerton begins as a proforma wedding – with unexpected consequences: the young Japanese woman cuts herself off from her family, hoping to leave her impoverished origins behind; Pinkerton, on the other hand, despite his overwhelming desires, doesn’t feel committed to this »provisional marriage«. When he’s ordered home Cio-Cio-San’s left behind, expecting his baby. She waits unwaveringly for his return; her only rock is her faithful servant Suzuki. But when Pinkerton’s ship re-docks in Nagasaki, the illusion shatters: He married another woman in America. When Butterfly realises they intend to take her child as well, she sees no other way out; she commits ritual suicide, as her father before her. Doing away with superficial clichés, the director R.B. Schlather focuses on the human tragedy, for which Puccini, Master of Melody found such heart-rending music.

Hailed as “the most beautiful tenor voice since Luciano Pavarotti” (Süddeutsche Zeitung), tenor Benjamin Bernheim has ignited an opera-world frenzy unlike any in recent years. His electrifying rise has taken him from the world’s greatest stages—the Met, La Scala, the Royal Opera House, Palais Garnier—to historic moments like performing at the closing ceremonies of the Paris Olympics and the reopening of Notre Dame Cathedral, earning him the title of “France’s new favorite tenor.” (The New York Times). Now, in a rare recital appearance for his Princeton University Concerts debut, Bernheim trades the grand opera house for an intimate chamber setting, bringing his signature artistry to a handpicked program of romance, longing, and nostalgia. From the lush sensuality of Duparc and Chausson to Spanish and South American gems by Mompou, Turina, and Ginastera, the evening culminates in the timeless melodies of Puccini and the poignant beauty of French chanson. No grand sets, no spectacle—just one of the world’s greatest tenors unfiltered, singing his favorite music just for you.

Benjamin Bernheim, Tenor Carrie-Ann Matheson, Piano

Richardson Auditorium

Beijing, in a fairytale setting: At the imperial court, Princess Turandot has made her own marriage a law: Anyone wishing to marry her must answer three riddles correctly; anyone who fails is executed. When a stranger appears, he decides to take on the challenge. He is the only one who succeeds in solving the riddles and, in turn, gives the princess a task: If Turandot can reveal his name by dawn, he is prepared to renounce her hand and die.
Behind the murderous brutality of Turandot's law and her cold-blooded rejection of all suitors lies a deep transgenerational trauma. These unsolvable tasks serve only as self-protection: An ancestor was brutally abused and murdered by her husband. Jakob Peters-Messer's production examines Puccini's fairytale opera for this deep psychological cause and simultaneously reveals the inherent ambivalence of tragedy and grotesque comedy.

Staatstheater Hannover

Described by Strad Magazine as being, “vigorous, extrovert and emphatic players with a vitality all their own,” the Nisaika Quartet’s origins go back to the 1980s at the Curtis Institute of Music. Four chamber-music-hungry friends and classmates, coached by Karen Tuttle and Felix Galimir, went on to win Deuxième Prix at the 8e Concours International de Quatuors à Cordes, a moment described as one of the greatest adventures of their musical lives. After finishing their undergraduate studies, this group of tenacious young musicians went their separate ways to pursue graduate and job opportunities, but always found themselves connected through the years. Now, after more than four decades and four illustrious careers as performers and pedagogues, the Nisaika Quartet reunites for a very special performance, featuring works by Webern, Beethoven, Puccini and Brahms.

Composer

Giacomo Puccini

Events

Upcoming events

Sep 23, 2025 - Jun 6, 2026

Turandot · The Metropolitan Opera

Oct 15, 2025 - Jun 24, 2026

Espresso concert · Oper Graz

Feb 11 - Jun 23, 2026

Turandot · Deutsche Oper Berlin

Apr 12 - Jun 4, 2026

Turandot · Oper Frankfurt

Apr 16 - May 9, 2026

Madama Butterfly · Staatsoper Hamburg

Past events

7 - 10 May, 2026

Tosca · Opera Montana

7 - 8 May, 2026

SFCM Opera Presents: Season Finale Opera Showcase · San Francisco Conservatory of Music

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