http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/related-171-giacomo-puccini/topic-rss.do Giacomo Puccini RSS feed http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23764306-rene-fleming-should-sprinkle-some-stardust.do Not content to rest on her laurels, the American soprano Renée Fleming has been investigating unfamiliar repertoire in recent years. 2009-11-04T00:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23758154-precise-humour-in-lheure-espagnole.do Nobody could accuse Ravel of resorting to slapstick in his one-act opera L’Heure Espagnole. 2009-10-18T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/events/article-23749300-opening-this-week.do The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus has its premiere in Leicester Square and The Power of Yes comes to the National. 2009-09-28T08:41:41Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/article-23728380-music-and-mussolini.do With three pieces by Ottorino Respighi, the Italian dictator’s favourite composer, receiving their Proms premieres, William Ward examines the cultural legacy of fascism. 2009-08-05T08:52:44Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23706387-madam-butterfly-needs-the-right-tone.do There is a combination of cool elegance and tawdry glamour that is too often at odds with the emotional involvement of Madam Butterfly. 2009-06-10T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23701226-school-talent-debuts-in-park-opera.do Opera Holland Park has recruited schoolchildren to sing in one of its biggest productions of the summer 2009-05-29T07:15:47Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23670301-why-g20-must-rein-in-the-banks.do THERE are, it must be admitted, limits to the ability of the world leaders gathered in the unprepossessing environment of the ExCel centre to find a recipe to combat recession between breakfast and the final communique at tea-time 2009-04-02T07:59:47Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23634948-la-bohme-is-strong-on-detail-low-on-drama.do La Bohème is strong on psychological detail but that level of realism threatens to drain the production of theatricality. 2009-02-05T00:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23618970-the-face-of-modern-opera.do The first big event in London’s music calendar is the UK premiere of Die tote Stadt, Korngold’s 1920 work that finally brought opera into the real world 2009-01-14T09:11:08Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23556545-la-fanciulla-del-west-makes-impact.do We expect the West to be wild but perhaps not as hairily so as in the opening act of Puccini’s Gold Rush opera, La Fanciulla del West. 2008-09-16T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23555657-proms-brought-to-close-with-flair.do Kitted out in Welsh red dragon coat trimmed with saltire and cross of St George, Bryn Terfel led the lusty crowd in Rule, Britannia! at the Last Night of the Proms. 2008-09-14T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23531072-murder-on-the-seine-with-noseda.do Noseda and his players gave it every chance, breathing easily in slower passages and finding an electrifying energy for the fast stuff. 2008-08-11T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23526369-glorious-grime-in-grimeborn.do Grimeborn is an opera festival that strives to be everything that Glyndebourne isn't. Odd, then, to open with one of the most grime-free of composers. 2008-08-04T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23524663-not-much-opera-at-tte-tte.do Don't go to Tête à Tête's Opera Festival expecting Mozart and Puccini. What you get instead is "opera and the edges of it". 2008-07-31T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/film/review-23524166-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-has-makeover.do Shown now with a new print and in the version revamped by MGM, The Good, the bad and the Ugly still looks a treat. 2008-07-30T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23515800-rags-to-riches-story-in-la-boheme.do The irony of this staging of La Bohème is that to create Puccini's Bohemian world of impecunious pleasure and pain, a ton of money must be spent. 2008-07-13T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23493149-brave-score-at-grange-park.do La Fanciulla del West, directed by Stephen Medcalf and designed by Francis O'Connor, worked stunningly at Grange Park. 2008-06-09T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/events/article-23488531-get-out-there-20-ways-to-enjoy-the-summer.do This is a golden, sunburned age of outdoor entertainment in London. Get out there. Buy a ticket. Crack open a bottle of something cold. Enjoy. 2008-05-30T08:40:08Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/review-23484250-sex-death-and-politics.do In barely 100 minutes Puccini's Tosca delivers corruption, sexual passion, political insurrection, religious hypocrisy and murder. 2008-05-12T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23445268-heroine-takes-a-plunge-into-this-thrilling-tosca.do This Tosca reaches a totally different audience from the usual ENO or Covent Garden crowd - unpretentious and enthusiastic to enjoy a good show. 2008-02-29T00:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/article-23437108-its-not-over-until-the-leading-lady-springs.do American opera singer Cynthia Lawrence is limbering up to perform a death-defying leap for her role in Tosca. 2008-02-12T11:41:05Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23437058-its-not-over-until-the-leading-lady-springs.do Opera singer Cynthia Lawrence is limbering up to perform a deathdefying leap for her art 2008-02-12T08:53:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23435273-minghellas-madam-butterfly-visionary-moments.do Madam Butterfly is an opera with everything, yet producer Anthony Minghella seems reluctant to deliver the story straight. 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23406242-sex-and-death-in-italy.do A breathless eroticism pounds through Montemezzi's L'Amore dei tre Re as violently and noisily as a stampede of horses over cobbles, says Fiona Maddocks. 2007-07-29T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/events/article-23397568-access-all-arias.do The Royal Opera House's free, open-air screenings of ballet and opera have become essential events. This summer there are a trio of classics to choose from. 2007-05-22T10:49:28Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/review-23391153-what-impeccable-timing.do Following his Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk triumph, Richard Jones has returned to Covent Garden with a sparkling double-bill of Ravel at his most inventive and Puccini at his funniest. 2007-04-01T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/review-23387855-a-pleasure-for-all.do The Royal Academy of Music's double-bill pleased the audience with nimble productions by Orpha Phelan and no shortage of youthful promise from all over the world. 2007-03-06T00:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/review-23386900-geisha-with-a-fiery-flutter.do There has been much debate about whether Madam Butterfly is racist or not but no one watching this production at the Royal Albert Hall could mistake where Puccini's sympathies lay. 2007-02-26T00:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/theatre/article-23385534-race-row-greets-roh-madama-butterfly.do Madama Butterfly, one of the world's most popular operas, opens in Covent Garden amid fresh accusations of racism. 2007-02-14T12:19:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/music/review-23366725-rustic-rasps-and-a-tense-frisson.do Garish and often over-heated, the London Schools Symphony Orchestra under artistic director Peter Ash put on a show at the Barbican that would have made many full-time orchestras pround. 2006-09-12T23:00:00Z