A sumptuous score and magnificent singing bring real theatrical electricity, even if the relentless violence and radical reimagining don’t always convince ...
You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. You can’t blame an opera company for trying. With the State Theatre closed for renovations, the CBD ...
Visually, there’s a lot to bowl you over and send you home thinking in this Irish National Opera production of Puccini’s Tosca. Perhaps others find also, as I do, that melodic fragments and orchestral ...
Natalya Romaniw brings vulnerability and depth to Tosca and, in the pit, Eun Sun Kim conducts with subtlety and delicacy in this revival of Jonathan Kent’s staging ‘Where would the opera houses be ...
There was real-life as well as operatic drama on the stage at the Royal Opera's first night of Tosca Freddie De Tommaso (Photo: Tristram Kenton) This performance will go down in the annals of Covent ...
Hopefully in a year of so, when recordings of the Los Angeles Opera replace the Metropolitan Opera broadcasts, a Saturday morning will be devoted to the production of Puccini’s “Tosca” that opened ...
1. It’s one of the most 'operatic' operas ever written. If you asked a complete novice to draw a picture of an opera, the result might look a bit like Tosca. It has it all: a castle with a beautiful ...