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 ...

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 ...

On April 10 and 12, the Jacksonville Symphony will present Puccini’s opera Tosca in Jacoby Symphony Hall, part of the Greta Challen Berg Artists Series. Arguably the world’s favorite opera, it’s a ...

"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 ...

Some of the most iconic operas have death prominently featured in the libretto, a move that is designed to heighten intensity and maximize tension. Illness, torture, murder, suicide — this is the ...

The Welsh National Opera’s staging of Puccini’s intoxicating opera shows a defiant company, determined on survival Telegraph Opera Critic, Nicholas Kenyon, is an author and academic, and former ...

The new Tosca at Royal Opera marks the debut of Jakub Hrusa as music director but also the return of Anna Netrebko to the spotlight Anna Netrebko as Floria Tosco in Oliver Mears’ Tosca at Royal Opera ...