Opera Ithaca has produced a "backstabbingly socially distant" orchestrated film version of Puccini's one-act comic opera Gianni Schicchi, to be released for streaming on Friday, October 9, 2020, ...

San Diego Opera's 2022-2023 Season continues with The Puccini Duo: a double-bill of the tragic Suor Angelica and the witty comic opera Gianni Schicchi on Saturday, February 11, 2023 at the San Diego ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Life & Arts news every morning. It was a neat idea to put these two one-act operas – Ravel’s L’Heure espagnole and Puccini’s Gianni ...

Woody Allen said Tuesday as he prepared for his directing debut at Milan's La Scala opera house that he has "always had a warm and affectionate following in Europe." Allen was greeted with applause ...

You expect the trickster Schicchi to be portrayed as an elderly, beaky chancer. Instead we get Christopher Purves’s cocksure, strutting con artist (pictured right). He’s a magnificent creation; a ...

In his most recent movies, Woody Allen has worked with actors including Emma Stone, Colin Firth and Cate Blanchett. This year, the filmmaker will team up with a different kind of star when he directs ...

De Falla’s tragic Spanish love story and Puccini’s only comedy make for a compelling night at Opera North Money talks, love is fickle, life is short. These brutish dictums apply equally to Manuel de ...

First seen in 2007, the Royal Opera's comic double bill of Ravel and Puccini returns for its first revival, and, with Elaine Kidd overseeing Richard Jones's productions, their dark-tinged humour seems ...

The role of Angelica is a Puccini soprano's dream, and Andrea Anelli -- the company's founder -- filled phrases with luminous sound and expressive depth. She was especially moving in "Senza mamma," ...

Awkward to stage live because of its short length, Puccini's comic opera has here found an ideal online home, in a super filmed production Telegraph Opera Critic, Nicholas Kenyon, is an author and ...

Plàcido Domingo has canceled his upcoming appearance in Woody Allen’s staging of “Gianni Schicchi” in Madrid, due to the recent death of his sister, the tenor’s publicist confirmed on Thursday.

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