Svetlana Kasyan is one of those people whose lives were decided by a light-bulb moment. “When I was maybe 16 years old I saw Giuseppe Verdi’s Aida with Leontyne Price. And I fell in love. I understood ...

With radical adaptations of Verdi’s “Macbeth” and Puccini’s “Tosca,” Heartbeat Opera shows why it’s so vital to New York’s music scene. By Oussama Zahr Heartbeat Opera, a small, nimble company that ...

Sara Scuderi, a resident of Verdi's home for retired opera singers in Milan. . (Northwest Film Center) Ghosts walk the halls of Casa Verdi, the world's first nursing home for retired opera singers.

DENVER — Sondra Radvanovsky was 11 when she heard Puccini’s “Tosca” broadcast from the Roman Arena in Verona. She decided on the spot to be an opera singer and she has gone on to establish herself as ...

Anne Toomey as Tosca in Sarasota Opera's production of "Tosca." The searing emotional wallop of Giacomo Puccini’s “Tosca” marked the opening of Maestro Victor DeRenzi’s 40th Winter Season with the ...

A scene from the 2016 Central City Opera production of "The Ballad of Baby Doe." The lineup includes classic operas by Giuseppe Verdi, George Frideric Handel and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart as well as the ...

The Annapolis Opera is offering four events this year, hoping to attract opera devotees and neophytes. A fully staged production of Puccini’s “Tosca” in its original Italian will be presented Nov. 5 ...

Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. In Heartbeat's TOSCA, censorship reigns supreme ...

You might call Lisa Daltirus the Save-the-Day Queen. The soprano, who stars in Seattle Opera’s upcoming “Tosca,” has made something of a specialty in rescuing opera companies in distress. But never ...

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The searing emotional wallop of Giacomo Puccini’s “Tosca” marked the opening of Maestro Victor DeRenzi’s 40th Winter Season with the Sarasota Opera. The hallmark of productions under his guidance has ...