✕ ✕
Turning tips into memories
Login
Signup

You have reached the limit of free articles.


To enjoy unlimited access to Culture Whisper sign up for FREE.
Find out more about Culture Whisper


Sign up by Email or Facebook.

Please fix the following input errors:

  • dummy

Each week, we sent newsletters and communication featuring articles, our latest tickets invitations, and exclusive offers.

Occasional information about discounts, special offers and promotions.


OR
LOG IN

OR
  • LOG IN WITH FACEBOOK

Thanks for signing up to Culture Whisper.
Please check your inbox for a confirmation email and click the link to verify your account.



EXPLORE CULTURE WHISPER
✕ ✕
Turning tips into memories
Login
Signup

Please fix the following input errors:

  • dummy
Forgot your username or password?
Don't have an account? Sign Up

OR
  • LOG IN WITH FACEBOOK

If you click «Log in with Facebook» and are not a Culture Whisper user, you agree to our Terms & Conditions and to our Privacy Policy, which includes our Cookie Use

Turning tips into memories

Get started Login
  • Home
  • Going Out
    • Things to do
    • Food & Drink
    • Theatre
    • Visual Arts
    • Cinema
    • Kids
    • Festival
    • Gigs
    • Dance
    • Classical Music
    • Opera
    • Immersive
    • Talks
  • Staying In
    • TV
    • Books
    • Cook
    • Podcast
    • Design
    • Netflix
  • Life & Style
    • Beauty
    • Fashion
    • Gifting
    • Wellbeing
    • Lifestyle
    • Shopping
    • Jewellery
  • Explore
  • Kids
  • Benefits
  • Membership
  • Get Started
  • Membership
  • Benefits

Puccini

  • Postponed

    We love

    Opera 

    Tosca, Royal Opera House: live and online

    Tosca, Royal Opera House: live and online

    13 Jan 21 – 13 Mar 21

    Covent Garden opens its winter season with an audience favourite – Puccini's dramatic story with a deadly twist, set in Rome

    Read more
  • We love

    Opera 

    Royal Opera Christmas Concert: review

    Royal Opera Christmas Concert: review ★★★★★

    On 18 Dec 20

    Covent Garden lets its hair down with a pyjama party and hands music-lovers a musical gift

    Read more
  • Essential

    Opera 

    Grange Park Opera 2021

    Grange Park Opera 2021

    10 Jun 21 – 18 Jul 21

    Puccini, Verdi and Rimsky-Korsakov operas are joined by a daring new commission as the Surrey country house sets its sights on a full summer season next year

    Read more
  • Postponed

    Book Now

    Opera 

    Grange Park Opera, Surrey 2020: what to see

    Grange Park Opera, Surrey 2020: classics, a musical and a world premiere

    Booking is open for one of London's favourite summer opera seasons. This year, Ponchielli, Puccini and a world premiere, plus a tune-packed musical

    Read more
  • Cancelled

    Book Now

    Opera 

    Madam Butterfly, English National Opera review

    Madam Butterfly, English National Opera review ★★★★★

    26 Feb 20 – 17 Apr 20

    Welcome return to the Coliseum of Anthony Minghella's production of Puccini's tragedy. A young Japanese woman falls for an American officer, but their marriage is doomed

    Read more
  • In the Know

    Opera 

    Opera cinema screenings: London dates

    Opera cinema screenings: London showcases international casts

    Modern masterpieces take their place alongside much-loved classics in stupendous screenings from London's and New York's top houses, with stars from all over the world.

    Read more
  • In the Know

    Opera 

    Best Classical Music and Opera 2019

    Best Classical Music and Opera 2019

    English National Opera got back on its feet, the Proms went from strength to strength, and the Royal Opera House season grew and grew

    Read more
  • In the Know

    Opera 

    Opera Holland Park 2020: stars, dates and must-sees

    Opera Holland Park 2020: the stars, dates and must-sees

    For a first glimpse of summer plan your nights at London's own country house opera, with much-loved operas by Tchaikovsky and Verdi, plus a comedy and a double-bill

    Read more
  • In the Know

    Opera 

    Margot La Rouge & Le Villi, Opera Holland Park

    Margot La Rouge & Le Villi, Opera Holland Park

    21 Jul 20 – 31 Jul 20

    Two short operas, by Delius and Puccini, in which the love of ordinary people is tested to breaking point

    Read more
  • In the Know

    Opera 

    Gerald Finley interview: 'Everyone wants the high-wire act'

    Gerald Finley interview: 'Everyone wants the high-wire act'

    The bass-baritone on playing seven roles at once, music for youngsters and climbing Kilimanjaro

    Read more
  • Essential

    Opera 

    Bryn Terfel interview: 'I've broken my own rule'

    Bryn Terfel interview: 'I have broken my own rule'

    Bass-baritone Bryn Terfel on villains and buffoons, an impending marriage, and hanging up his Hans Sachs boots

    Read more
  • Tried and Tested

    Opera 

    Manon Lescaut, Opera Holland Park review

    Manon Lescaut, Opera Holland Park review ★★★★★

    04 Jun 19 – 22 Jun 19

    Meet Puccini's first great heroine, the convent girl who is seduced by a more lavish lifestyle, but at a terrible cost

    Read more
  • We love

    Opera 

    Tosca review, Royal Opera House

    Tosca review★★★★★, Royal Opera House

    27 May 19 – 20 Jun 19

    Packed with soaring music and with a devastating ending, Puccini's opera is a profoundly moving celebration of art, music and courageous love

    Read more
  • In the Know

    Opera 

    English National Opera 2019/20

    English National Opera 2019/20

    01 Oct 19 – 17 Apr 20

    Seven new productions, four based on the Orpheus myth, and revivals of Bizet, Puccini and G&S

    Read more
  • Essential

    Opera 

    Opera Holland Park 2019 to book now

    Opera Holland Park 2019: classics and rarities

    Tchaikovsky, Verdi, Puccini and more sung by a host of top artists at London's own country house opera

    Read more
  • Tried and Tested

    Opera 

    La Bohème review , English National Opera

    La Bohème review ★★★★★, English National Opera

    26 Nov 18 – 22 Feb 19

    A welcome return for Jonathan Miller's impeccable production of Puccini's tender opera, stylishly set in 1930s Paris

    Read more
  • In the Know

    Opera 

    Opera Holland Park 2019

    Opera Holland Park 2019: classics and a discovery

    Puccini, Verdi, Tchaikovsky, Cilea ... and the comical story of a secret vice

    Read more
  • Book Now

    Opera 

    La Bohème, Royal Opera House

    La Bohème, Royal Opera House

    16 Jun 18 – 20 Jul 18

    Maverick director Richard Jones salutes tradition in a spirited and moving reading of Puccini's heart-breaker

    Read more
  • Essential

    Opera 

    Summer at the Royal Opera House

    Summer at the Royal Opera House

    Masterpieces by Wagner, Mozart, Puccini and Verdi bring to a close a spectacular year at Covent Garden

    Read more
  • We love

    Opera 

    Five Opera Heroines: where to see the world's best female sopranos

    Five Opera Heroines: hear the world's best sopranos sing their hearts out

    Five Opera Heroines: where to hear the world's best sopranos sing their hearts out

    Read more
  • In the Know

    Opera 

    Superstar soprano Angela Gheorghiu reflects on love, tradition and healing

    Angela Gheorghiu interview: the superstar soprano on love, tradition and the healing power of music

    Angela Gheorghiu, queen of the great 19th-century Italian repertoire with its passionate arias and often heartbreaking tales, talks to Claudia Pritchard

    Read more
  • Essential

     

    Royal Opera House Winter Season booking guide

    Royal Opera House Winter Season booking guide

    The very best opera and ballet to book in this Winter Season at the Royal Opera House

    Read more
  • In the Know

     

    Covent Garden raises the curtain on its new year with two appearances by the US singer in prime roles written by Puccini and Verdi

    Michael Fabiano interview: the Royal Opera House's tenor on a mission

    Covent Garden raises the curtain on its new year with two appearances by Michael Fabiano in prime roles written by Puccini and Verdi

    Read more
  • Things To Do

     

    The five top must-see operas at Covent Garden this autumn

    The five top must-see operas at Covent Garden this autumn

    Reach for your skinny black dress and pour an Aperol spritz: there is a distinctly Italian feel to the first productions of the season at the Royal Opera House

    Read more
  • In The Know

    Things to do 

    Puccini, Strauss and Handel top the bill in the Glyndebourne new season

    Glyndebourne Festival Opera 2018

    Puccini, Strauss and Handel top the bill in an attractive new season

    Read more
  • We love

    Opera 

    Landmark production of Puccini's tragic opera boasts a matchless cast

    Madama Butterfly ★★★★★ review, Royal Opera House

    23 Mar 17 – 25 Apr 17

    Star soprano Ermonela Jaho may just be the finest Butterfly you ever see

    Read more
  • Interview

    Things to do 

    Ermonela Jaho interview: 'I got through five Otellos!'

    Ermonela Jaho interview: 'I got through five Otellos!'

    Meet the opera singer who defies the stereotype with the simple life off-stage – but on stage gets through tenors five at a time

    Read more
  • In The Know

     

    An exciting new home puts a country house opera season within easy reach of London

    Grange Park Opera 2017

    A short hop from Waterloo is the new home of an established opera company with an ambitious season in its sights

    Read more
  • Essential

    Opera 

    Puccini's most dramatic opera launches a new country house opera season

    Tosca, Grange Park Opera

    08 Jun 17 – 02 Jul 17

    Art, politics and love collide in Puccini's masterpiece, in which the menacing chief of police, Scarpia, pursues the opera singer of the title

    Read more
  • Book Now

    Opera 

    The downward spiral of a young life is movingly portrayed in a Puccini revival

    Manon Lescaut ★★★★★ review, Royal Opera House

    22 Nov 16 – 12 Dec 16

    The music is ravishing, but Covent Garden's Manon Lescaut is uncompromisingly frank about the brutality of sexual exploitation

    Read more
  • Tried and Tested

    Opera 

    A triumphant revival of a stellar production of Puccini's seering drama

    Tosca ★★★★★ review, English National Opera

    03 Oct 16 – 26 Nov 16

    Puccini's edge-of-the-seat drama of love, envy and deception receives a brilliant revival

    Read more
  • Latest News

     

    Puccini, Mozart and Janacek operas are joined by a neglected Italian rarity

    Opera Holland Park 2017

    Opera Holland Park continues to build on its growing reputation for both giving fresh interpretation to the classics and to unearthing operas that have been unfairly overlooked

    Read more
  • ««
  • «
  • 1
  • 2
  • »
  • »»


  • The Culture Whisper team
  • What is Culture Whisper membership
  • Corporate membership
  • Give a gift membership
  • Retrieve a gift membership
  • Contact us
  • Press
  • FAQ
  • Privacy
  • Terms and conditions
  • Cookies
  • Discover
  • Venues
  • Restaurants
  • Stations
  • Boroughs
Sign up to CW’s newsletter
By entering my email I agree to the CultureWhisper Privacy Policy (we won`t share data & you can unsubscribe anytime).
×