Puccini's

As the collective title signals, Puccini's Il Trittico is a triptych, a carefully paced sequence of one-act operas, Il Tabarro, Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi, that produces an evening of sharply contrasting entertainment.

This week's new live music 2011

LONDON—The première of Puccini's three one-act operas, collectively called "Il Trittico," was in 1918 at the New York Met.

Triple-Header Makes Excellent Opera Paul Levy 2011

Narrated by Australia's Barry Humphries, this film deserves a special award for the best use of Puccini's humming chorus from Madama Butterfly.

George Heymont: It's a Small World After All (VIDEOS) George Heymont 2010

It's a wonderfully pithy example of Puccini's skill as a dramatic composer, ranging from the stark verismo tragedy of Tabarro, through the tear-jerking drama of Angelica to the wonderfully engineered comedy of Schicchi.

This week's new live music 2011

In "Gianni Schicchi," Morogiello takes the libretto (by Giovacchino Forzano) of Giacomo Puccini's comic one-act opera, makes some changes and expands the story into a Florentine farce.

Backstage: Anthony Cochrane hears more than one calling in Folger's 'Henry VIII' Jane Horwitz 2010

Narrated by Australia's Barry Humphries, this film deserves a special award for the best use of Puccini's humming chorus from Madama Butterfly.

George Heymont: It's a Small World After All (VIDEOS) George Heymont 2010

I believe Puccini's "La Bohème" may have been the first opera I ever saw, when I was a teenager.

Suiting Up for the Met Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011

The former secretary of state was invited onstage near the end of the concert, where she sat down at the drums for an encore of . . . wait for it -- "Nessun Dorma" from Puccini's opera "Turandot."

Madeleine Albright joins Chris Botti's rhythm section during Valentine's Day concert (video) The Reliable Source 2011

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

Puccini's Il Trittico comprises three distinct one-act operas.

I predict a riot 2011