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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Opera critics consider Giacomo Puccini’s “Tosca,” which is now playing at the San Francisco Opera, to be the epitome of the verismo style. When the opera premiered in 1900, many Italian composers were ...

An impressive set drew applause as the first curtain rose. It was a prophetic herald of the pleasures to follow. The story begins with a light comedic touch as baritone Michael Sokol (Sacristan) ...

Resounding boos followed the Metropolitan Opera’s opening-night performance of Puccini’s “Tosca” — and while no singer was at fault, the uproar was justified. Theater and opera director Luc Bondy made ...

At the Civic Opera House this past Saturday, it was hard to tell which was the greater tragedy—Puccini’s melodrama Tosca or its new Lyric coproduction. A largely consistent, compelling vision did ...

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 ...

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 ...