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 ...

“Tosca,” presented by Opera Coeur d’Alene, reviewed Friday at North Idaho College’s Schuler Performing Arts Center, continues Sunday. Visit operacda.org for tickets or more information. Tosca has ...

The pitfalls you might not notice: The start of the “Te Deum” scene in Act I of “Tosca,” pictured here, is problematic, says conductor Speranza Scappucci, because of the changing meters. Wu Wei, ...

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Tosca is a difficult opera to stage outside of its strictly prescribed time and setting. Based on the French playwright Victorien Sardou’s 1887 play La Tosca, Giacomo Puccini’s opera of love smothered ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Performed in Italian with English translations above the stage, Tosca is Giacomo ...

18:38, Sun, Jan 28, 2018 Updated: 18:52, Sun, Jan 28, 2018 It is a production that keeps on giving with Paul Brown’s naturalistic design placing each of the three acts exactly where Puccini intended.

ROMANIAN soprano Angela Gheorghiu’s return to the role she created in 2006 in Jonathan Kent’s production of Tosca was eagerly anticipated by her many followers. Puccini’s Grand Diva, who lives for ...

“Scarpia, we will meet before God,” cried Evelina Dobračeva as Tosca, as she crossed herself and jumped off the parapet at the conclusion of Cincinnati Opera’s “Tosca.” A stunning new production, a ...

The Tosca that opened the Dallas Opera’s 2023-24 season Friday night was grand opera at its grandest. Puccini’s opera is high drama, of course: a tightening grip of love, jealousy, lust, political ...

It fell to the Royal Danish Theatre’s CEO to mastermind the opening show of its opera season. Hard as it is to believe, Kasper Holten has never directed an opera by Puccini before now. Speaking on a ...