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When the New Orleans Opera opens its 2024-25 season this weekend, its lead-off production of Giacomo Puccini’s “Tosca” will evoke fond memories for two of its principal singers. Soprano Melody Moore ...

What should opera look like in a world marked by rapid industrial and technological development? Though such questions certainly resonate in the 21st century, opera composers were asking the same ...

Whenever someone asks my opinion on the perfect “first” opera to attend, I always pick “Tosca” or “La bohème.” Puccini’s earworm melodies, spectacular arias and concise scoring can hook a first-time ...

Anastasia Bartoli as Tosca and Mario Chang as Cavaradossi in Palm Beach Opera's production of Puccini's "Tosca" at the Kravis Center. Palm Beach Opera opened its 62 nd season Friday with a performance ...

"This year is a very special year commemorating the 100th anniversary of Puccini's death. Puccini's Tosca feels very special to me because the protagonist's profession in the work is the same as mine, ...

TAMPA — In choosing Tosca to conclude its 22nd season, Opera Tampa is not so much making a statement as blowing a kiss. That affection is for opera itself, a relatively new concept in which a dream ...

The pitfalls you might not notice: The start of the “Te Deum” scene in Act I of “Tosca,” pictured here, is problematic, says conductor Speranza Scappucci, because of the changing meters. Wu Wei, ...

Compared with the night before, when responsibility for the title role changed hands between the first two acts, Friday's "Tosca" at the San Francisco Opera was a comparatively smooth undertaking. The ...

No matter how many times one has experienced "Tosca," it's not long into any encounter before you're reminded why this is one of the staples of the repertoire. The opera boasts one of the tautest ...