Caitlin Gotimer’s Tosca goes from 0-60 in mere moments while the London Philharmonic unlock the barely contained violence in Ted Huffman’s long-awaited exceptional staging Giacomo Puccini died only a ...

Heartbeat Opera, which specializes in rethinking classic titles for contemporary audiences, opened its first fully staged new productions in 3 1/2 years at the Baruch Performing Arts Center last week.

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 ...

West Bay Opera stages Puccini’s “Tosca.” With its themes of sex, politics and religion, the opera feels as topical as ever in today’s climate. Courtesy West Bay Opera If it’s true that classic works ...

In all its 92-year history, Glyndebourne had never before staged Puccini's Tosca but this year it was chosen to open their Festival. Despite some great performances, it did not live up to expectations ...

In our technology-dominated times, a “classic” production of a perennial operatic favorite is always welcome. Seattle Opera has granted every traditional opera fan’s wish in its latest take on Giacomo ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by The powerhouse soprano, already a company stalwart at 37, still seems to be figuring out a character whose moods change on a dime. By Zachary Woolfe ...

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 ...

If you come to opera via film musicals and, later, stage shows, Tosca is amongst the most accessible. The story of the lovers and the evil apparatchik is told at a furious pace, trauma after trauma ...

Lucy Shelton plays a renowned singer with dementia in Laura Kaminsky’s chamber piece at On Site Opera; Lise Davidsen stars in Puccini’s melodrama at the Met. Heidi Waleson ...