With its screams, sex, bells and bloodshed Puccini’s opera was initially derided as a noisy disaster. Ahead of Glyndebourne’s first ever production, we look the ‘shabby little shocker’ that’s become o ...

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 ...

It’s a masterpiece! Tosca has opened at Opera Theatre of St. Louis, and the production emphatically reconfirms that group’s status as one of the world’s great opera companies. The evening was soft and ...

Floria Tosca, both proud and jealous and the most famous soprano in all of Italy, gets caught up in political skulduggery and murder when she struggles to rescue her beloved Mario from the deathly ...

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 ...