Although the singers were so close to the audience that their voices often hit ears at top volume, the intensity was right for Puccini's tale of adultery, loss and revenge. Scott Skiba's staging ...

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The University Opera Theatre will present “Suor Angelica & Il Tabarro” by Italian composer Giacomo Puccini this weekend. The opera will run at Ted Mann Concert Hall from Thursday, Nov. 17, to Sunday, ...

Art is mirroring life this weekend down on the waterfront. Nickel City Opera is staging Puccini's smoldering, hourlong opera "Il Tabarro" ("The Cloak"). The opera is on the destroyer escort USS The ...

Puccini's idea of writing a trilogy of one-act operas to fill an evening has turned out less a successful innovation than an invitation to pick and choose. Only one of the operas scored an immediate ...

In Il tabarro, Puccini harnesses theatrical elements from the Parisian Grand Guignol to verismo, the fin de siècle operatic tradition of showing characters from everyday life enduring tragic, often ...

Review of English Touring Opera: Puccini’s Il tabarro and Gianni Schicchi at Perth Festival of the Arts THIS year’s Perth Festival of the Arts welcomed a return from English Touring Opera who last ...

The presumption that composers transposed sections of their operas solely to facilitate the singer's task has fueled the debate about tonal relationships in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century opera.

Pietro Mascagni's "Cavalleria Rusticana," one act and about 75 minutes long, is just a little too short to make an evening of opera in itself, and so it is regularly teamed with another brief work, ...