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 ...

After presenting drive-in and smaller productions over the past two seasons, San Diego Opera plans to come back in a big way for its 2022-23 season. The upcoming season, which goes on sale today, will ...

Ted Huffman in his new production for Glyndebourne, with sets by Nadja Sofie Eller, costumes by Astrid Klein and lighting by ...

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 ...

Celebrating its 50th season, Artpark will present one of the world's favorite operas, Giacomo Puccini's TOSCA, in the Artpark Mainstage Theater on Friday, July 12 at 7:00PM & Sunday, July 14 2:00PM in ...

When the New Orleans Opera opens its 2024-25 season this weekend, its lead-off production of Giacomo Puccini’s “Tosca” will evoke fond memories for two of its principal singers. Soprano Melody Moore ...

SUNSET PARK — Regina Opera recently presented several meticulously polished, fully-staged performances of Giacomo Puccini’s “Tosca,” a tragic story of passion and jealousy set in Rome in 1800, ...

Why these extravagant gestures to Puccini? While celebrations connected to an artist’s birth are quite common, making a big fuss over the anniversary of their death happens far less frequently. But ...

Glyndebourne’s relationship with Puccini’s popular operas has been distant and occasional, partly because of the large-scale ...

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 ...

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 ...