Serena Williams retired from tennis in 2022 to focus on her family and business ventures. Serena Williams, who retired from tennis in 2022, has reentered the International Tennis Integrity Agency’s ...

If any soprano is custom-built for the role of Floria Tosca, it is Maria Meneghini Callas. From her first entrance at Manhattan’s Metropolitan Opera last week, she made the Puccini heroine a creature ...

Puccini classic was first staged in Rome in 1900. Italy will mark the 125th anniversary of Giacomo Puccini's Tosca by screening a production of the much-loved classic live from Rome's opera house on ...

“My style is my signature,” is a phrase famously attributed to trailblazing jewelry designer Suzanne Belperron, who never signed her work. It’s also a principle that is ingrained in the DNA of Bottega ...

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 ...

Opera lovers arriving at Covent Garden this week for the start of the new season were greeted by Ukrainian flags and scores of picketing protesters. “While she sings, Ukraine bleeds,” read the ...

What can a great company placed in this position by idiot, philistine apparatchiks do? Well, what they can do is stage the most brilliant performance of Puccini’s warhorse that I have seen, and I’ve ...

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 ...

She has not yet taken the stage, but upcoming performances by Russian soprano Anna Netrebko at Britain’s Royal Opera House have drawn angry criticism from Kyiv and prompted protests in London as ...

Opera Baltimore opens its new season with "Tosca" in October 2025. Opera Baltimore is launching its new season with Giacomo Puccini’s “Tosca.” It has been nearly a decade since a fully staged ...