No matter how many times you’ve seen Puccini’s warhorse opera Tosca, there are always some things new and exciting that reveal themselves to keep this masterpiece fresh, exciting, and relevant. Maybe ...

A violent and crass triple stab of brass killed the gaiety. A man in black marched through the pews. As light licked his jowls, the police chief Scarpia, played by Bryn Terfel, revealed himself to the ...

With its screams, sex, bells and bloodshed Puccini’s opera was initially derided as a noisy disaster. Ahead of Glyndebourne’s first ever production, we look the ‘shabby little shocker’ that’s become o ...

What should opera look like in a world marked by rapid industrial and technological development? Though such questions certainly resonate in the 21st century, opera composers were asking the same ...

It’s been called one of the “most lethal” of operas. But beyond its dark themes of murder, corruption and betrayal, “Tosca” also boasts some of Puccini’s most beloved arias. Set in Rome during the ...

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 ...

CEDAR RAPIDS — Sometimes you just have to stick your head through a door to see what’s going on. That worked for Maria Natale, who heard the music of “Tosca” from the next room in a New York rehearsal ...