Jacquelyn Stucker has withdrawn from all performances of The Marriage of Figaro for health reasons. The role of Countess Almaviva will be performed by Maria Bengtsson. Swedish soprano Maria Bengtsson ...

A violent and crass triple stab of brass killed the gaiety. A man in black marched through the pews. As light licked his jowls, the police chief Scarpia, played by Bryn Terfel, revealed himself to the ...

LENOX — When the proverbial curtain rises on opening night of the Boston Symphony Orchestra's classical season at Tanglewood Saturday, July 5, it will mark the start of an ambitious eight-week ...

Calgary Opera has revealed its 2026/27 season, a bold and emotionally charged journey featuring three grand operas on the Southern Alberta Jubilee stage, a beloved family production, and a wide array ...

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 ...

I, like those excitable people who wrote the fascinatingly vivid programme notes about the backstory and original Tosca play, should just take Prozac and calm down. Last night’s production isn’t about ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. November includes a Giacomo Puccini centennial — it’s the 100th anniversary of his death from complications ...

The English National Opera opened its 2022-23 season with a staging of Tosca that had been seen in Helsinki in 2018, but was new to the company. Puccini’s ‘shabby little shocker’ has rarely been ...

The vocal writing in Tosca is not Puccini’s finest, but the orchestration is among the composer’s most imaginative and most potent. Or at least I am now of that opinion, having heard young conductor ...

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 ...