#puccini

[detroitlib]

View of soprano Leontyne Price in Puccini's opera, "Tosca." Stamped on back: "NBC photo." Handwritten on back: "Miss Price in Act II."

E. Azalia Hackley Collection of African Americans in the Performing Arts, Detroit Public Library

[saintlyspirits]

MARIA CALLAS as Floria Tosca in Puccini's Tosca, 1953

[operaqueen]

Birgit Nilsson, Turandot. The famous 1960 Metropolitan Opera production, featuring costumes by Cecil Beaton, and set designed by famed theater designer, Oliver Smith.

[derring-do]

Opera Streams: Late-Mid April 2026

17th: Handel's Rodelinda from Garsington Opera. Featuring Lucy Crowe, Tim Mead, Ed Lyon, and Hugh Cutting. Free!

17th: Wagner's Siegfried from the Rotterdam Philharmonic at De Doelen. Concert presentation. Featuring Clay Hilley, Rebecca Nash, and Brian Mulligan. Subscription.

19th: Puccini's Manon Lescaut from Gran Teatre del Liceu. Featuring Asmik Grigorian, Joshua Guerrero, and Iurii Samoilov. Single purchase or season subscription.

19th: Fagerlund's Morgonstjärnan from Ooppera Baletti Finland. World premiere. Featuring Johan Reuter, Jenny Carlstedt, and Helena Juntunen. Free!

22nd: Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin from Müpa Budapest. Concert presentation. Featuring Anna Shapovalova, Alexey Markov, and Szabolcs Brickner. Free!

23rd: Smetana's The Bartered Bride from Teatro Real. Featuring Natalia Tanasii, Sean Panikkar, and Martin Winkler. Free!

24th: Glass's Satyagraha from Opéra de Paris. Featuring Anthony Roth Costanzo, Davóne Tines, and Deepa Johnny. Subscription or Rental.

25th: Verdi's Falstaff from Juilliard's Vocal Arts program. Featuring Minki Hong, Page Michels, and Titus Muzi. Free! No VOD period.

30th: Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande from Teatro alla Scala. Featuring Bernard Richter, Sara Blanch, Simon Keenlyside, and John Relyea. Rental.

Joyce DiDonato's beloved Carnegie Hall master classes are back, streaming on Medici on the 19th, 20th, and 21st.

Archive notes: La Monnaie / De Munt posted the new Bieito Idomeneo for free on YouTube, and Opéra de Versailles recently did the same with their 2025 Ariodante. On Arte, Opéra national du Rhin's 2024 Guercoeur with Stéphane Degout becomes available on the 22nd, and the 2023 premiere of Picture a Day Like This arrives on the 25th.

[itsa-me-cavaradossi]

tfw you're trying really hard not to break character during all the rapturous applause after your big, tragic, heart-wrenching aria but the audience loves you too damn much:

Eleonora Buratto in the title role of Giacomo Puccini's Tosca at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma (November 2025).

[whatareaccountnames]

sequel to madama butterfly where the entire plot is just suzuki beating the shit out of pinkerton

[leniofthevalley]

the second act of la boheme is like crack to me i can’t explain it i listen to it the whole way through whenever im feeling down and when it finishes i just start it over again its so good it scratches my brain in just the right way i just want to flail around trying to sing every part of the chaotic back-and-forths and when it gets to quando m’en vo it takes everything i have in me not to start giggling and bouncing around in public when she hits that last note and then pulls it back juuuuust a bit AND THE ENDING when the quando m’en vo melody comes back and everyone’s just full out SINGING and musetta’s screaming about her damn shoe and the harmonies and parpignol oh i could ramble about la boheme act 2 for hourssssss

[infinitelytheheartexpands]

remaking this poll

who would win

the chief of police, a tyrannical despot

an opera singer with one fruit stabby boi

Voting ended onJun 21