Composer

Rome trembles under Scarpia’s iron fist. Only the diva Tosca dares defy him – but in a corrupt world, love is no match for power. This high-stakes love story, with its sweepingly romantic score, is staged at Glyndebourne for the first time.

Tosca

Glyndebourne

For one afternoon only, the graduating and incoming Young Artists of Opera Australia come together for a compelling performance of music spanning Claudio Monteverdi to Gian Carlo Menotti.

Young Artists in Concert

Sydney Opera House

Perhaps opera’s most gripping thriller, Puccini’s masterpiece, “Tosca” is a tale of passion, power, jealousy and betrayal where the action unfolds in Rome over a period of just twenty four hours.

Puccini’s Tosca

West Green House Opera

This was the young Puccini’s very first opera which he wrote for a competition in Italy long before he became the operatic giant we all know and love. Sadly, his entry didn’t win and so he later returned to it, re-wrote certain parts  and relaunched it to considerable acclaim in Milan. Unfortunately, being a relatively short opera, this early gem was soon eclipsed by the titanic successes of “La Boheme”, “Tosca” and “Turandot”. As a result, this Gothic, Central European story of an unfaithful mortal who is forced to dance himself to death by vengeful fairies (and yes, this is indeed the same story as the much more well known ballet, “Giselle” by Adolphe Adam!), all but disappeared, unjustly, from the verismo repertoire. It remained rarely performed until a few years ago when our friends at Opera Rara made an award winning recording starring the famous Albanian soprano, Ermonela Jaho, who many of you will have seen bringing down the house in our Silver Anniversary Gala Concert with the BBC in July 2025.

Puccini’s Le Villi

In the glittering world of Parisian high society, the courtesan Magda has given up on love—until a chance encounter with the young and idealistic Ruggero rekindles a forgotten passion. Featuring the beloved “Song of Doretta,” Puccini’s lush, lyrical score soars with the emotion only he can deliver.

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La Rondine

Hillside Club

Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts

Legion of Honor

Opera Wilmington presents a double bill of passion, sacrifice, and unforgettable music with the staging of these two Italian one-acts.

The pairing, according to Opera Wilmington Artistic Director Nancy King, “offers a compelling narrative arc, putting women’s voices at the center of both works.”

Puccini was inspired by the success of Mascagni’s one-act Cavalleria rusticana to write three one-acts himself. That set, which he called Il Trittico (The Triptich), consists of Suor Angelica, Il Tabaro and Gianni Schicci. Suor Angelica, however, is often staged on its own.

Set in a convent, the opera tells of the personal heartbreak and uplifting religious redemption of a young sister, Suor Angelica.

Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana is a tale of love, jealousy and revenge, set in Sicily. The opera’s Intermezzo is often performed as an orchestral piece.

Puccini’s Suor Angelica Mascagni’s Cavelleria Rusticana

University of North Carolina Wilmington

The Perelada Festival inaugurates its summer edition with the presence of an exceptional couple formed by two of the most outstanding voices on the current opera scene: the soprano Ermonela Jaho and the tenor Benjamin Bernheim, accompanied on the piano by Marcos Madrigal.

Benjamin Bernheim & Ermonela Jaho

Church of Carmel

Francesca Zambello’s acclaimed production of Madame Butterfly returns to Glimmerglass, directed by Joshua Horowitz and conducted by Joseph Colaneri. This elegant, visually stunning staging presents a nuanced examination of the American presence in Japan and the cultural collision at the heart of Puccini’s timeless masterpiece.

Madame Butterfly

Glimmerglass Festival

7th Symphony Concert

Globe Coburg

Internationally-acclaimed soprano Sonya Yoncheva joins pianist Malcolm Martineau for a radiant evening of Italian and Spanish song. From Puccini’s lyrical gems to Verdi’s intimate miniatures and Albéniz’s sultry Tango, this programme reveals Yoncheva’s expressive depth in repertoire that spans operatic passion and poetic introspection.

Sonya Yoncheva soprano; Malcolm Martineau piano

Wigmore Hall

Turandot

San Carlo Theatre

When young geisha Cio-Cio-San marries the handsome American army lieutenant Pinkerton, she feels herself the luckiest girl alive. She has it all: love, marriage and a beautiful house on top of a hill overlooking the ocean. For Pinkerton she joins church, angering her family, who abandons her. Madama Butterfly, as Pinkerton lovingly calls her, does it all for love. Pinkerton on the other hand, sees her only as a beautiful distraction before he gets married to an American woman: Like the houses in Japan, also marriage is for rent. He leaves her behind and she never loses hope, that he returns. When Pinkerton finally returns, he doesn’t come alone: His wife Kate is with him to pick up the little boy, that Cio-Cio-San has born. Cio-Cio-San’s world lies in shambles.

Madama Butterfly

Olavinlinna

Like a painting brought to life: within a transparent structure, the vibrant Paris of the nineteenth century comes to life, forming the backdrop of an unforgettable story of love and friendship. The most recent Arena production of La Bohème, designed by Alfonso Signorini, returns to the Arena di Verona for four nights.

La Bohème

Arena di Verona

With the sadistic police chief Scarpia, Giacomo Puccini enriched opera literature by one of its most abysmal characters. The painter Cavaradossi falls into his hands when he helps a political prisoner to escape. But for Scarpia, Cavaradossi is just a decoy through which he hopes to finally make the celebrated singer Tosca submissive. A perfidious game of cat and mouse begins for the life of her lover. In an unleashed frenzy of sound, Puccini mercilessly drives his protagonists through a hurricane of emotional states of emergency that has lost none of its power to this day.

German Oper am Rhein

A Japanese girl sacrifices her heritage for the American dream when a naval officer chooses her for his bride. Her dream is crushed by betrayal when he traps her in the very cage she wishes to escape. She seizes her destiny, and the devastating outcome lingers long after the final note.

The Santa Fe Opera

Ever since ARD dedicated a multi-part documentary series to the cellist, Anastasia Kobekina has been one of Germany's most well-known young musicians. With her brilliance on the instrument and her electrifying stage presence, the Leonard Bernstein Award winner has won the hearts of her audience. Her Blaibach debut promises pure cello bliss.

Anastasia Kobekina & Basel Chamber Orchestra

Blaibach Concert Hall

6th Academic Concert 2025/26

Gewandhaus

“A Night at the Opera” brings the grand tradition of European opera into our American Adventures season, celebrating the larger-than-life drama, romance, and spectacle that have captivated audiences for centuries. This performance will showcase highlights of the work in concert format, featuring the Summit Choral Society alongside soloists selected from Central City Opera’s prestigious Bonfils-Stanton Foundation Young Artists Training Program. Mozart’s Overture to The Magic Flute sets the stage with brilliance and mystery, its noble chords and quicksilver passages opening the door to a world of fantasy. From Rossini’s swaggering “Largo al factotum” to Bizet’s sultry “Habanera,” from the thunder of Verdi’s Anvil Chorus to the soaring triumph of “Nessun dorma,” this program unfolds as a gallery of unforgettable moments—choruses, duets, and overtures that showcase opera’s full emotional range, from intimate confession to exhilarating spectacle. 

A Night at the Opera

Riverwalk Center

The Opera Festival of Chicago returns with its sixth season of unforgettable events. La Boheme, a poignant opera, follows poor young artists set in 1830s Paris, focusing on the tragic passionate love story between poet Rudulfo and seamstress Mimi, set against themes of poverty, friendship and the fleeting nature of youth and happiness. Their struggles and romance unfold with unforgettable music, capturing universal emotions of joy, loss and heartbreak in their bohemian lives. This fully staged productions is accompanied by the Opera Festival of Chicago Orchestra.

Opera Festival of Chicago presents La Boheme

George Van Dusen Theatre at North Shore Center

The season begins with Puccini’s La Bohème, the definitive portrait of “Bohemian” life. In the frozen garrets of Paris, we meet the dreamers: the poets, painters, philosophers, and musicians who sacrifice everything for their craft and for each other. It is a timeless story of youthful passion and the fragile beauty of a love that flickers brightly before the cold reality of the world intrudes.

La bohème

North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie

Returning to our stage for the first time in 17 years, Tosca features Puccini’s most memorable melodies and romantic orchestrations. The opera diva Floria Tosca steadfastly lives for art and love. However, when the corrupt Scarpia discovers Tosca’s lover, Cavaradossi, aided the escape of a political prisoner, her world comes down to one final, fatal question: how far will she go to protect the man she loves?

Simpson College

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.

Deutsche Oper Berlin

Detmold Theatre

From Opera Holland Park’s foundation in 1996, Puccini has been central to the company’s programming. From multiple productions of La bohème, Manon Lescaut, Madama Butterfly and La rondine across three decades to individual highlights including the Royal Philharmonic Society Award-nominated 2015 production of Il Trittico, our first staging of Le Villi in 2023 and the triumphant 2024 revival of Stephen Barlow’s ground-breaking 2012 production of Tosca, our work has included a semi-staging of the early romance, Edgar and a concert performance of the Messa di Gloria. In 2026, following Martin Lloyd-Evans’s new production of La fanciulla del West, the company’s third staging of this opera, we complete this journey of discovery with a concert staging of Puccini’s final opera, Turandot, completed after the composer’s death in 1924 by Franco Alfano.

Opera Holland Park

Il tabarro is a gloomy marital drama set in the milieu of Parisian boatmen on the Seine: Grief for their deceased child stands between the couple Michele and Giorgetta, Giorgetta's affair with the worker Luigi ends in tragedy.

Il Trittico

Vienna State Opera

Radvanovsky/De Tommaso

High-spirited, devout, a tad jealous and above all a true diva — that’s Floria Tosca! With her captivating voice and undeniable star qualities, she triumphs on the Roman stages, while the city groans under Baron Scarpia’s reign of terror. The corrupt chief of police is infatuated with the singer and so has two reasons to eliminate her lover Mario Cavaradossi, a sympathiser with the city’s political rebels. He offers Tosca the choice: if she gives herself to him, Mario will not be executed the next morning…

La Monnaie - De Munt

Carlo Felice Theater

Westphalian Music Festival Hamm

Gut Kump, Hamm

Kurhaus, Hamm

They want to live solely for art and love: the singer Floria Tosca and the painter Mario Cavaradossi. Yet they find themselves caught in a deadly whirlpool of political and personal power struggles. Cavaradossi sympathizes with the ideals of a liberal republic, but at the same time paints Madonnas for the ultra-conservative Roman clergy. When he helps a fugitive republican find refuge, the police chief Baron Scarpia, who has established a reign of terror in Rome to suppress republican aspirations, becomes suspicious of him. To achieve two goals at once—to eliminate Cavaradossi and to subjugate his lover Tosca—Scarpia devises a truly diabolical plan: He has Cavaradossi arrested and tortured in Tosca's presence, and then makes her an extortionate offer...

Theater Lübeck

In a bleak, authoritarian future, society is ruled by an all seeing regime that crushes individuality and dissent. Against this backdrop, the celebrated poster girl for the regime, Floria Tosca and her lover, the rebellious artist Mario Cavaradossi, are caught in a struggle between love and tyranny.

TOSCA

Blackfriars Theatre and Arts Centre

“Al’alba vincerò - at sunrise I will win“, the unknown prince bawls out to the city, making him one of the few heroes of Italian opera whose arioso sleeplessness is due to confidence rather than despair. The others have to despair instead. Primarily the inhabitants of the city, in which – “nessun dorma“ – no one is allowed to sleep because everyone has to search for the name of the unknown man on the highest orders and under threat of the death penalty. That Turandot should actually end well by Puccini’s standards can be felt – like so much else – in the central tenor aria of the work. Puccini knew better than anyone how to force an emotional involvement on the audience through the merciless immediacy of his musical language. The piece itself ends happily, albeit without Puccini, who had to lay down his arms in his battle against laryngeal cancer before the finale was finished. And so Turandot joins the ranks of the great opera fragments of the 20th century. But not only is the piece more or less a chimera, the title character herself also seems to be primarily a projection: “Turandot does not exist! Only nothingness exists“, Ping, Pang and Pong warn the unknown prince to prevent him from attempting the three riddles that need to be solved in order to win the emperor’s daughter Turandot. Anna Sophie Mahler, whose Stuttgart production of Saint François d’Assise 2023 was named the “most unusual opera experience of the year“ by the journal Opernwelt, will set out 100 years after the premiere of Puccini’s enigmatic last opera in search of the “fluid of love“ with which the composer wanted to pacify nerves stretched to the limit in the opera’s finale. Because, this much is certain: this fluidum would also be useful today.

Stuttgart Opera

Sister Angelica has lived in the convent for years, secluded and devoted entirely to tending the monastery herb garden. In her heart, she harbors a great longing for her son, whom she once had to leave with her aunt. Years later, her aunt pays her a visit and urges Angelica to renounce her inheritance. Almost incidentally, Angelica learns of her son's tragic death. She reaches for the poison – then, in the distance, she hears angelic voices...

Sister Angelica

Theater Aachen

International superstar and America’s most celebrated soprano Renée Fleming joins your Hawaiʻi Symphony Orchestra for a Halekulani Masterworks season finale! Inspired by her 2023 GRAMMY® Award-winning album, Voice of Nature: the Anthropocene comes to the symphonic stage. Experience the majesty of nature with stunning film projections by the National Geographic Society, accompanying inspired songs, arias by Handel and Puccini, music from Lord of the Rings and Carousel, contemporary hits by Björk, Kevin Puts, and Nico Muhly , and selections by famed film composer Ennio Morricone.

Renée Fleming: Voice of nature: the anthropocene

Blaisdell Concert Hall

The people are thirsty for blood. Another suitor for the hand of the sovereign is about to be publicly beheaded, because Princess Turandot is determined never to belong to any man. That’s why anyone who wants to marry her must first solve three riddles. Anyone who fails has to pay with his life. An unknown prince, revolted by Turandot’s cruelty, yet attracted by her beauty, takes on this potentially lethal risk – and solves the riddles. But has he awakened the ice-cold, man-murdering sovereign to love and put an end to her barbarity?

Max-Joseph-Platz

Giacomo Puccini's incomparable masterpiece, “La bohème” is a beloved tale of love and bitter tragedy. “La bohème” has inspired audiences for more than 130 years with its glorious melodies illuminating the eternal story of starving artists and star-crossed lovers in the Latin quarter of Paris. Puccini sets the poet Rodolpho and the fragile Mimi in the garrets of Paris and the raucous streets of the Latin Quarter. Amidst the revelry, the lovers and their artist friends, Colline the philosopher, Schaunard the musician, Marcello the painter and his fiery girlfriend Musetta, charge headlong into a series of tragic trysts and romantic misadventures.

Some of the most cherished melodies in all of opera, poignant and touching moments of heartfelt emotion, true love and ultimate loss, are yours to wrap your heart around. It is said that when Puccini penned the final notes which accompany Mimi's tragic death in La Bohème, he wept copiously. Audiences forever after have been doing the same thing. Let the music and the sheer, human helplessness of the characters carry the day; but be warned, Rimrock Opera's La Bohème is a three-handkerchief show!

A tale of poor artists in Paris’ Bohemian Quarter, friends Rodolfo and Marcello are in love with two very different women. Musetta is a flirt who is in constant battle with Marcello. Mimi and Rodolfo are devoted lovers with no quarrels, except with the poverty which has stolen Mimi’s health. Despite all their hardships, the friends live lives of joy and generosity until death comes.

St. Pete Opera: Puccini’s La Bohème

Hough Concert Hall

Palladium Theater St. Petersburg

A trio of memorable characters, a thrilling plot, iconic arias... It is no surprise that Tosca consistently ranks among the most frequently performed operas in the world. But through which musical devices does Giacomo Puccini manage to keep you on the edge of your seat for two hours? What do the accompanying chords reveal about the complex psychology of Scarpia, Tosca, and Cavaradossi? And what makes the melodies of “Vissi d’arte”, “E lucevan le stelle”, or the “Te Deum” strike us right at the core?

Inside the Music

As revolution brews in 1830s Paris, an endearing circle of friends show us what it means to truly live—for art, for love and for one another. Puccini’s radiant score brims with warmth and wit before breaking the heart with one of opera’s most unforgettable tragedies.

The Grange at Northington

A courtesan and mistress of the wealthy Rambaldo, Magda enjoys the material comforts of high society but dreams of true love. During a palm reading she learns that, like the swallow, she will travel south in pursuit of romance and happiness. When young newcomer Ruggero arrives, he and Magda quickly fall in love and run away together. But Magda soon finds that the reality of romance does not live up to her dreams, and she knows that she cannot keep the truth of her past from Ruggero forever.

Puccini's La rondine

Northwestern University

Puccini, Strauss

Imperial Baths

Set against a manhunt in the lawless Sierra Nevada of the nineteenth century, with a pistol-packing, poker-playing heroine, La fanciulla del West sees Minnie Falconer, one of the first independent women to stake her claim in the wilds of California, fall in love with a stranger. But is the stranger who he claims to be?

La fanciulla del West

Floria Tosca, a young opera singer, agrees to sleep with Scarpia, Rome's corrupt Chief of Police, in order to save her lover's life. Instead, she stabs Scarpia in the chest killing him. But Scarpia's promises also turn out to be hollow. Her lover is executed at the Castel Sant'Angelo prison. Pursued by guards, she jumps to her death from the Castle's tower. One of Puccini's most famous works, Tosca  packs a dramatic force and a level of suspense unsurpassed in the verismo repertoire.

Lucie Stern Community Theatre

The Chinese princess Turandot is obliged to marry only the man who solves her three riddles - a vow that has already cost countless princes their lives. Anyone who fails will be executed that very night. However, when Calaf, a Tartar Prince, sees Turandot, he cannot resist her enigmatic beauty. He solves the tasks, but the princess refuses the marriage. Calaf turns the game round: In order to avoid the marriage, Turandot must discover his name before dawn - a task that pushes everyone to their limits. The aria "Nessun dorma" marks the opera's dramatic climax. But after the naming of the name, "Love", Puccini's last work ends with the note "e poi "Tristano" - "and then Tristan". The opulent production by Lydia Steier ("Director of the Year" 2024) makes this work into an opera experience full of suspense, passion, and spectacle. Felix Bender assumes the Musical Direction once again.

Cologne Opera

La bohème is one of the most beautiful love stories in opera. A flame that burns brightly before fading too soon...
A masterpiece by Giacomo Puccini, La bohème is one of the most moving and popular operas in the operatic repertoire. The story follows the passionate love affair between Rodolfo, a penniless poet, and Mimi, a fragile young embroiderer. Their encounter in a freezing attic is love at first sight, illuminating a daily life marked by poverty. Their artist friends gravitate around them, embodying the fleeting beauty of youth through laughter, arguments, and carefree attitude.

Puccini's La Bohème

Grand Théâtre de Québec

Bohemian Rhapsody:” 2026 Arts for a Better Tomorrow

Gateway High School

Tosca, set in 1800s Rome, is a whirlwind of love, jealousy, and political intrigue starrings a fiery diva; her political activist lover, and the ruthless police chief who sees “no” as just a starting point. His obsession with Tosca is all of their downfall. 

Known for its intense drama and high-stakes twists, Tosca serves up enough passion, betrayal, and mayhem to keep even the toughest opera cynic hooked—because in Tosca, love conquers all, but not before a little murder.

Marcus Performing Arts Center

Opera Grand Rapids concludes its 2025–26 season with a bold reimagining of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, a poignant tale of survival, betrayal, and cultural collision. This landmark production marks Opera Grand Rapids’ first-ever international co-production, in partnership with Calgary Opera and Arizona Opera. Led by an all-female, Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) creative team, the production offers a fresh, culturally informed perspective on this timeless classic.

DeVos Performance Hall

Representatives of Italian church music will gather in Mainz Cathedral for the 9th Symphony Concert. Giovanni Gabrieli, born in 1554, was a Venetian church musician at St. Mark's Basilica in Venice and one of the most important musicians of the Venetian School at the transition from the Renaissance to the Baroque. His avant-garde work attracted musicians from all over Europe to Venice. His most famous student was the German Heinrich Schütz. He made early use of the basso continuo in his works, and his Sonata pian' e forte contains some of the earliest dynamic markings, i.e. markings for the specific use of volume in music. The works of the German Baroque, which culminated in the music of J.S. Bach, are based on this tradition, the roots of which lie in this very Venetian school under Giovanni Gabrieli.

9th Symphony Concert

Mainz Cathedral

Margot Hall, soprano

Northwestern Bienen School of Music

Soloists of the Maggio Academy

Pieve di San Donnino a Villamagna

Strozzi Fortress

Schemes, wills, and one unforgettable con. Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi is a fast-paced farce full of family drama, crafty deception, and razor-sharp wit. When a wealthy Florentine dies and leaves his fortune to a monastery, his greedy relatives turn to the sly and unconventional Gianni Schicchi to fix the problem—with delightfully chaotic results.

Gianni Schicchi

Bijou Theatre

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.

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

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

Katherine Fisfis, soprano

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Composer

Giacomo Puccini

Events

Upcoming events

Jun 4 - Sep 10, 2026

Inside the Music · La Monnaie / De Munt

Jul 3 - Aug 29, 2026

Madama Butterfly · Santa Fe Opera

Jul 11 - Aug 17, 2026

Madame Butterfly · Glimmerglass Festival

4 - 30 Aug, 2026

Tosca · Glyndebourne

Aug 7, 2026

Tosca · Wolf Trap Opera

Past events

4 - 30 Aug, 2026

Tosca · Glyndebourne

Aug 2, 2026

Young Artists in Concert · Opera Australia

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