San Diego Opera has started their season of transition with Tosca by Puccini. It should be noted that all three productions this year were established by the previous regime. This season is not an ...

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 ...

It has been a busy Puccini year, with this Friday marking the centenary of his death. Rather than using this as a reason for innovation and adventure, the Royal Opera has revived, not for the first ...

Tim Ocel still recalls the impact Puccini’s opera “Tosca” had on him the first time he heard it. “As a kid, I had performed as one of the child spirits in ‘The Magic Flute’ for Minnesota Opera,” Ocel ...

Puccini’s Tosca is the very definition of grand opera. Love, betrayal, death and huge, sweeping arias. It’s the kind of show you expect to see on a stage as large as the opera’s score and emotions.

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 ...

SALT LAKE CITY, UT (Sept. 28, 2015) - Utah Opera takes audiences on a heart-stopping journey of forbidden love, loyalty, betrayal and tragedy in the 2015-16 season opening production of Puccini's ...

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 ...