Le Villi (The Willis or The Fairies) is an opera-ballet in two acts (originally one) composed by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Ferdinando Fontana, based on the short story Les Willis by ...

While there are dozens of recordings of Puccini's later operas, the first two have had a thin time on disc. Now from Radio France on the Naive label come new recordings of Le Villi and Edgar, which ...

First performed in 1889, Edgar was Puccini's second opera, and in the opinion of many his weakest. Puccini was given to rubbishing the score in later life, though in fact it prefigures many of his ...

The drawing card for anyone thinking of buying this set has to be tenor Placido Domingo, in what will likely be one of his final operatic recordings. At 65, the great Spanish tenor remains in very ...

One of my favorite Woody Allen movies may offer a way to rescue Puccini’s “Edgar” from neglect, even scorn. Stay with me here. In “What’s Up, Tiger Lily?” Allen took a James Bond-inspired Japanese ...

Opera Holland Park tries to make Puccini’s early failure work – with mixed results Even Puccini eventually disowned his second opera, Edgar. "It was an organism defective from the dramatic point of ...