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 ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Aleksandra Kurzak, moving into heavier repertoire with Puccini’s opera, played the title diva as touchingly human. By Oussama Zahr When Aleksandra ...

ohn Bell directs a stark, monumental staging of Puccini’s riveting drama of love, jealousy and sacrifice set in Mussolini’s Italy in the 1940s. Two true divas will share the title role, Takesha Meshé ...

AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France — The first thing we hear in Christophe Honoré’s new production of “Tosca” at the Aix Festival here is not the score’s thunderous opening chords, but “Vissi d’arte,” a rending ...

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 ...

Amarillo Opera kicks off their 35th season with Giacomo Puccini's "Tosca" on Saturday, Oct. 7 at 7 p.m. at the Globe-News Center for the Performing Arts. The story, played out in three acts, is a ...

Prima donna. Diva. Icon. Without a doubt, opera legend Maria Callas undeniably had one of the finest voices of all time. After making her return to the stage in the Royal Opera House’s “Tosca” as seen ...

MILAN (Reuters) - "Tosca", Giacomo Puccini's opera about a diva prepared to do anything for love, was given a cinematic flavor as it opened La Scala's season for the first time, winning a 16-minute ...

Every year, the vast open parking lot at the Santa Fe Opera in the lap of the Sangre de Cristo mountains is full of tailgaters — often with sumptuous dinners for the season’s opening night. “I think ...

Twenty-two months have passed since Opera Columbus last performed in its longtime home of the Southern Theatre. The company has stayed visible since then — first with virtual presentations, then with ...