In the end, it was a happy surprise that so much of beauty and musical integrity emerged from the exercise – and that the production by Steve Elias brought a convincing fresh interpretation to the ...

Seattle Opera will close its 2024/25 season with Giacomo Puccini’s shocking melodrama Tosca, the fiery tale of an opera diva who risks everything to save her beloved from the grasp of a sadistic and ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NAPLES, Italy (AP) — Opera legend Plácido ...

SUNSET PARK — Regina Opera recently presented several meticulously polished, fully-staged performances of Giacomo Puccini’s “Tosca,” a tragic story of passion and jealousy set in Rome in 1800, ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook “Grounded,” the new work that opened the season, has been joined by revivals of three Puccini, Verdi and Offenbach classics. By ...

If you come to opera via film musicals and, later, stage shows, Tosca is amongst the most accessible. The story of the lovers and the evil apparatchik is told at a furious pace, trauma after trauma ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — An investigation commissioned by the Los Angeles Opera into sexual harassment allegations against ‪Plácido Domingo has found that the legendary tenor engaged in “inappropriate ...

The Royal Ballet and Opera said it was scrapping performances in Tel Aviv next year, after nearly 200 staff members signed an open letter criticizing its stance on the war in Gaza. By Amelia ...

The mystique surrounding Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen has been that of the late bloomer: After leaning singer-songwriter in her youth, singing in choirs and mistaking herself for a mezzo, Davidsen ...

Mears plays mostly by the Puccini/Giacosa/Illica rulebook of love and terror in totalitarian Rome - foolish the director who would throw the musically and ...