Visually, there’s a lot to bowl you over and send you home thinking in this Irish National Opera production of Puccini’s Tosca. Perhaps others find also, as I do, that melodic fragments and orchestral ...

There are at least five good reasons Florida Grand Opera has performed Puccini’s “Tosca” almost a dozen times in 50 years, even featuring tenor Luciano Pavarotti in one of the roles in 1981. “To me, ...

Jonathan Kent’s 2006 Tosca returns to Covent Garden for a tenth time and it’s bloody, bold but not quite as resolute as it ought to be. At its best this production favours the thriller element like ...

NEW YORK — The stakes could not have been higher. The chaos could not have been wilder. It’s fair to say that no production in the Metropolitan Opera’s history has been more vexed than the new staging ...

Amongst the splendour of Rome, danger and betrayal bloom. Floria Tosca and Mario Cavaradossi live for each other and their art. When Cavaradossi bravely helps an escaped prisoner, the young couple ...

Giacomo Puccini had been intrigued by Victorien Sardou’s drama La Tosca ever since 1889, when in Milan he saw a performance featuring the celebrated actress Sarah Bernhardt. Yet the complicated ...

Unctuous and bullying by turns, Morgan Pearse’s Scarpia is a sharp-suited populist schemer whose election posters – stuck across the walls of Yannis Thavoris’s finely detailed set – proclaim him (in ...

The phrase “grand opera” conjures images of opulently dressed performers singing atop a monumental set, but few patrons truly consider the artistry and labor that goes into such epic entertainment. As ...

A roller coaster story of love, lust, jealousy, murder and political intrigue, the opera "Tosca" comes to Whitefish Nov. 23 as part of the Metropolitan Opera Live in HD program. Sung in Italian with ...