Giacomo Puccini

It’s off to the Aix-en-Provence Festival for this week’s Sunday Opera (10/20 3:00 p.m.) and their production of “Madama Butterfly.”

We’re happy to be back at the Los Angeles Opera for this week’s Sunday Opera (10/6 3:00 p.m.) and their production Puccini’s “Turandot.” Although a problematic opera, it has still been popular since its premier in 1926, two years after Puccini’s death.

We’re staying in Munich for this week’s Sunday Opera (9/15 3:00 p.m.) for a performance of Puccini’s “Tosca” from Munich’s National Theatre. With a libretto by Luigi illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, this well-loved tale of political turmoil, corruption, murder, revenge, and suicide premiered in Rome in 1900.

We're staying at Beijing's National Centre for the Performing Arts this week for Puccini's "Wild West" opera, "La Fanciulla del West." After the opera, we'll fill the afternoon with more music inspired by "the west" from composers like Meredith Willson and Antonin Dvorak.

This week's Sunday opera and following pieces are all my way of celebrating my annual day because they're pieces that I love and are dear to me beginning with Puccini's Incredibly moving and romantic "La Rondine" or "The Swallow."

We've been in space for the past two weeks, so we're coming down to earth with Giacomo Puccini's "wild west" opera "The Girl of the Golden West." Our Minnie on this 1958 recording is the wonderful Renata Tebaldi, her love, the bandit Ramirez, is Mario Del Monaco, and the scheming sheriff who also loves Minnie is Cornell MacNeil.

We’re back at the Vienna State Opera for this week’s Sunday Opera (9/11 3:00 p.m.) and their recent production of Puccini’s “Manon Lescaut.”

"La Boheme” is the featured opera on this week’s Sunday Opera (11/7 3:00 p.m.), twice! Our first Boheme comes to us from LA Opera and features Marina…

It’s a revolution on this week’s Sunday Opera (7/4 3:00 p.m.) with the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden’s production of Giacomo Puccini’s “Tosca.” The…

The tragic tale of famed singer Floria Tosca is the feature on this week’s Sunday Opera (11/29 3:00 p.m.) in a production of Puccini’s beloved opera from…