Howard and Perez have been dating for three years. It's not unusual for "Tosca" to end in tears. This time, though, they were tears of joy for a real-life couple. During curtain call at San Francisco ...

Seattle Opera will close its 2024/25 season with Giacomo Puccini’s shocking melodrama Tosca, the fiery tale of an opera diva who risks everything to save her beloved from the grasp of a sadistic and ...

Among all the composers whose operas have continued to enthral audiences, Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) is unrivalled. That’s perhaps surprising, because he created some of his most successful works in ...

A great classic opera, a cast of strong and impassioned singers and players, beautifully designed sets. It would be hard to find a more compelling trifecta of talent than Seattle Opera displays in the ...

For art and love. Floria Tosca suspects her lover of being unfaithful when really, he’s helping an escaped political prisoner and friend. This misunderstanding mutates into a series of escalating and ...

PARIS — Many 19th-century opera composers wrote roles to suit the voices and characters of their wives or mistresses. When Puccini created a tempestuous diva called Floria Tosca, however, he could ...

Christof Loy’s psychological staging returns to the stage of Finnish National Opera, with Swedish soprano Elisabet Strid ...

Russian soprano Anna Netrebko returned to the Royal Opera House in Puccini’s Tosca, starring in the eponymous role - Alastair Muir/amx If the Royal Opera had aimed to open their new season in a blaze ...

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 ...

Better than: The average episode of 24, for those who get off on torture and political intrigue. But no bitchy girl computer geeks, unfortunately. In Three Guineas, her treatise on gender and fascism, ...