Nobody has ever been in any doubt about the brutality in Puccini’s Tosca. It’s there in the bestiality of the police chief Scarpia and it’s forcefully there in the music from the opening three ...

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 ...

Telegraph Opera Critic, Nicholas Kenyon, is an author and academic, and former Controller of Radio 3, Director of the Proms and Managing Director of the Barbican Centre. He has written and lectured ...

For the most part, he carried his precious Ming vase safely across the shiny Sussex floor. Caitlin Gotimer’s heroic Roman diva Tosca, and Matteo Lippi’s persecuted artist Cavaradossi (pictured below), ...

Glyndebourne’s first ever Tosca offers a pared-back staging ‘updated’ to the mid-1940s in which the glory is provided not by the usual grandiose sets but from the orchestra: if there were no colours ...

Florentine Opera's new production of Puccini's "Tosca" has the most elaborate content advisory this side of premium cable: "Tosca" "contains depictions of interrogation and torture, physical ...

"Tosca" will be performed Nov. 1, 5 and 7 at the Detroit Opera House. Puccini set the opera in Rome during the Napoleonic wars, but Detroit Opera's version will move the action to fascist Italy in the ...

Last Thursday, I went to see the opera Tosca at the Astra Theatre in Gozo. Opera performances are now a permanent feature of the theatre calendar in Gozo, and their high standard draws the crowds of ...

Opera lovers arriving at Covent Garden this week for the start of the new season were greeted by Ukrainian flags and scores of picketing protesters. “While she sings, Ukraine bleeds,” read the ...