Sondra Radvanovsky: It's really been my therapist, opera has. It's been my way of dealing with all of my issues in life, not just the death of people close to me and illness, but also happy moments, ...

Music director Roberto Kalb, who is also functioning as artistic director, says the company is putting its recent financial ...

Ann Toomey embraces Chaz'men Williams-Ali in "Tosca," staged by Milwaukee's Florentine Opera. I recently attended the Florentine Opera’s production of Puccini’s opera Tosca (“Florentine Opera’s ‘Tosca ...

In the end, it was a happy surprise that so much of beauty and musical integrity emerged from the exercise – and that the production by Steve Elias brought a convincing fresh interpretation to the ...

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 ...

TOSCA, THE ZOO, LA TRAVIATA, and More Set For English National Opera's 2026/27 Season The lineup also includes Angel’s Bone, Breaking the Waves, Adriana Mater, and more.

Every year, the vast open parking lot at the Santa Fe Opera in the lap of the Sangre de Cristo mountains is full of tailgaters — often with sumptuous dinners for the season’s opening night. “I think ...

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 ...

A violent and crass triple stab of brass killed the gaiety. A man in black marched through the pews. As light licked his jowls, the police chief Scarpia, played by Bryn Terfel, revealed himself to the ...

The mystique surrounding Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen has been that of the late bloomer: After leaning singer-songwriter in her youth, singing in choirs and mistaking herself for a mezzo, Davidsen ...

November includes a Giacomo Puccini centennial — it’s the 100th anniversary of his death from complications after undergoing an experimental radiation treatment for his throat cancer — and New ...