Puccini Around the World

Name: Puccini Around the World
Start: 2025-01-24T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-01-24T21:00:00-05:00
Location: Merrimans' Playhouse, Inc.

Schedule

Fri Jan 24 2025 at 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Merrimans' Playhouse, Inc. | South Bend, IN

Join SBLO for our second production of the 2024/2025 Season, where you will be taken on a tour spanning the globe of Puccini's greatest works.
Friday January 24, 2025 at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday January 25, 2025 at 2 p.m.
Merriman’s Playhouse
Puccini, a leading figure in the verismo style, embraced realism, which emerged from the Italian literary scene of 1875-early 1900s. Verismo, meaning 'realism', focused on depicting everyday life and human dramas like illness, lost loves, and marital conflicts, as seen in La bohème. Unlike earlier epics and myths, verismo explored the lives of ordinary people, particularly the poor. Puccini frequently adapted successful plays and novellas for his operas, such as Madam Butterfly, based on a 1898 short story, and Tosca, derived from Victorien Sardou’s 1887 play 'La Tosca'.