Giacomo Puccini

Madama Butterfly is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini, with an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa.

Jade Simmons: Bachmann as Butterfly?: GOP Candidates Reimagined as Famous Opera Characters, Part 2 Jade Simmons 2012

Madama Butterfly is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini, with an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa.

Jade Simmons: Bachmann as Butterfly?: GOP Candidates Reimagined as Famous Opera Characters, Part 2 Jade Simmons 2012

Whether the pipeline is called "Nabucco or Turandot doesn't really matter to us," he said in reference to the operas by Italian composers Giuseppe Verdi and Giacomo Puccini.

RWE May Reconsider Nabucco Pipeline Jan Hromadko 2012

One of the pleasures of the relatively unexciting San Francisco Opera season this fall was my discovery that Giacomo Puccini's "Turandot" was much more musically serious than I'd thought since first seeing it 50 years ago.

A Season of Meager Delights David Littlejohn 2011

Giacomo Puccini's score for La Fanciulla del West (1910) tried to capture the spirit of the California Gold Rush (at one point the opera's libretto refers to "Mister Johnson della Sacramento").

George Heymont: Basking in the Multiple Charms of The Secret Garden George Heymont 2011

Although three ensemble numbers are ragtime masterpieces—"We're Goin' Around," "Aunt Dinah Has Blowed De Horn" and the truly grand finale, "A Real Slow Drag"—the other numbers are composed in an idiom drawn from Gay '90s balladry, barbershop quartet and gospel song rather than the accepted manner of Giuseppe Verdi or Giacomo Puccini.

'Treemonisha' as It Was Intended To Be Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2011

When she finished singing "O mio babbino caro," an aria by Giacomo Puccini, that night, she received a standing ovation.

Jackie Evancho of ‘America's Got Talent' has a voice mature beyond her 10 years 2010

Eight days after finishing Rose of the Rancho, Cecil was shooting another Belasco play, The Girl of the Golden West, converted into an opera by Giacomo Puccini in 1910.

Empire of Dreams Scott Eyman 2010

Her "Quando m'en vo" from La Boheme was as coquettish and self-satisfied as composer Giacomo Puccini and librettists Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa would have wished.

David Finkle: If This is Monday and Opera in Central Park, Why the Microphones? 2009

La Bohème by Giacomo Puccini takes place mostly in the winter, but the score is so bursting with vitality and effervescence that it speaks longingly of spring.

La Bohème elena maria vidal 2009