Virginia Opera is delivering a fresh package of firsts in its latest production: “Il Postino.” The 2010 opera that opens Friday will be the VOA’s first “From Screen to Stage” offering, in which it ...

“Il Postino,” which is having its debut run at Los Angeles Opera right now, is almost shockingly easy to like. Operatic premieres aren’t supposed to be like this. They’re supposed to be challenging to ...

The centerpiece of the American Cinematheque’s Nothing Left to Do but Cry: The Films of Massimo Troisi is inevitably the 1995 Oscar-nominated “The Postman” (Il Postino), which will be shown Saturday ...

Millions of people around the world fell in love with the 1994 film Il Postino - and Mexican-born, Los Angeles-based composer Daniel Catán was one of the most smitten. "I immediately thought it would ...

Have you ever sat down to watch a movie and thought, ‘Hey, this would make a good opera’? No? Most people who saw the popular Italian, “Two Thumbs Way Up!” movie “Il Postino” back in the 1990s ...

Tenor Placido Domingo will create the role of Chilean Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda in a new opera, “Il Postino,” by Mexican composer Daniel Catan, Los Angeles Opera company artistic director ...

The romantic story combines elements of Cyrano de Bergerac with details of the real life of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda. The poet’s exile was in fact to nearby Argentina, but in this version, as in the ...

Opera enthusiasts and newcomers alike are in for a special pleasure as Virginia Opera’s production of Mexican composer Daniel Catán’s tragic-comedic ”Il Postino” (“The Postman”) arrives at the Center ...

Fans of Film at Fine Arts Theatre, Maynard, will present “Il Postino: The Postman” at 7:30 p.m. May 10-11 at Fine Arts Theatre Place, 19 Summer St., Maynard. When exiled Cuban poet Pablo Neruda ...

After blowing a hole in the budget with a controversial Wagner “Ring” cycle in the midst of a sour economy, it would be understandable if the Los Angeles Opera reverted to a holding pattern of ...

THIRTEEN's Great Performances presents the world premiere performance of Daniel Catan's opera Il Postino from LA Opera starring Placido Domingo on Friday, November 25 at 9 p.m. ET, as part of the PBS ...