Giacomo Puccini

The Northern State University Department of Music faculty will present its annual recital at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Johnson Fine Arts Center. Included in the recital will be vocalists Darci Bultema, Michael Skyles, Timothy Woods and Wendy Van Gent....

A trio of soloists and two choruses joined the Orlando Philharmonic for its season-opening concert Saturday night but the orchestra more than held its own, thank you very much. The Philharmonic presented a concert of well-known operatic works by Giacomo...

Eileen R. "Mimi" Philips, a homemaker and volunteer who enjoyed music, died of cancer Monday at her Richmond, Va., home. The former Roland Park resident was 77. The daughter of a Ford Motor Co. assembly line worker and a factory worker, Eileen Rose Wade...

Concerts Pianist Brian Ganz will return to his hometown of Columbia to once again perform at the Sundays at Three chamber music concert series this Sunday, Nov. 6, p.m., at Christ Episcopal Church, located at 6800 Oakland Mills Road. Ganz is now based...

Opening night for the Orlando Philharmonic's season was Saturday — sold-out crowd at the Bob Carr to hear an evening of selections from the operas of Giuseppe Verdi and Giacomo Puccini. You can read my take on the concert here: Review: Orlando...

1801: The U.S. House of Representatives broke an electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr, electing Jefferson president; Burr became vice president. 1904: The original two-act version of Giacomo Puccini's opera ''Madama Butterfly'' was...

My colleague at the Sentinel's Lake County edition wrote up this report about the Central Florida Lyric opera season: By Debbie Manis, Orlando Sentinel The Central Florida Lyric Opera and its production company, Music Live Inc., will kick off its 2010-...

World Premiere, Mahler’s 4th HighlightsEvanston Symphony Orchestra’s January 30 Concert Evanston, IL — A world premiere by composer Gwyneth Walker and Gustav Mahler’s 4th Symphony …...

Here's an opera audition notice for “La Boheme” from Mad Cow Theatre and the Orlando Philharmonic: Auditions for La Boheme with the Orlando Philharmonic MAD COW THEATRE is holding auditions for LA BOHEME by Giacomo Puccini. Seeking a company.....

Still reeling from the recession and its recent mounting of the complete "Ring" cycle, Los Angeles Opera is announcing Monday that its upcoming 2011-12 season will feature a lineup dominated by imported productions and revivals. The season highlights...

Click here to download TV listings for the week of Dec. 20 - 26, in PDF format This week's TV Movies HIGH-WATER MARK: The new special 'Mega-Tsunami: 5 Years Later' recalls the deadly 2004 tsunami, mostly through amateur video footage......

You know you’ve reached a career pinnacle when an award is named after you. So it was only fitting that the Alex Award, created for excellence in entertainment package design, was named after Alex Steinweiss, the father of modern-day album......