On April 10 and 12, the Jacksonville Symphony will present Puccini’s opera Tosca in Jacoby Symphony Hall, part of the Greta Challen Berg Artists Series. Arguably the world’s favorite opera, it’s a ...

"Tosca" will be performed Nov. 1, 5 and 7 at the Detroit Opera House. Puccini set the opera in Rome during the Napoleonic wars, but Detroit Opera's version will move the action to fascist Italy in the ...

Some of the most iconic operas have death prominently featured in the libretto, a move that is designed to heighten intensity and maximize tension. Illness, torture, murder, suicide — this is the ...

Tosca Theresa Pardini, beloved mother, Nonna, great grandmother, and cherished friend, passed away peacefully on Sunday, November 16, surrounded by the love of her family. On a dark, cloudy day, as ...

“My style is my signature,” is a phrase famously attributed to trailblazing jewelry designer Suzanne Belperron, who never signed her work. It’s also a principle that is ingrained in the DNA of Bottega ...

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 ...

Opera lovers arriving at Covent Garden this week for the start of the new season were greeted by Ukrainian flags and scores of picketing protesters. “While she sings, Ukraine bleeds,” read the ...

She has not yet taken the stage, but upcoming performances by Russian soprano Anna Netrebko at Britain’s Royal Opera House have drawn angry criticism from Kyiv and prompted protests in London as ...

The Royal Ballet and Opera (RBO), one of Britain’s most prestigious arts institutions, has canceled its planned production of “Tosca” in Israel after a widespread staff backlash. In a recent open ...

In the end, it was a happy surprise that so much of beauty and musical integrity emerged from the exercise – and that the production by Steve Elias brought a convincing fresh interpretation to the ...

LENOX — In a crash of drums and a blare of trumpets, Sir Bryn Terfel materialized behind the chorus of giddy Roman youth and, as the villainous police chief, Baron Scarpia, sent them fleeing with a ...