Tosca is an opera of geometric precision. Its three acts take place at the points of a triangle in the center of Rome—a church, a palace, and a prison, each a short walk from the other. The dating is ...

Anne Toomey as Tosca in Sarasota Opera's production of "Tosca." The searing emotional wallop of Giacomo Puccini’s “Tosca” marked the opening of Maestro Victor DeRenzi’s 40th Winter Season with the ...

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, ...

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, ...

Season 12 of Great Performances at the Met continues with a primetime broadcast of a new production of Puccini’s classic Tosca, starring Sonya Yoncheva as the title prima donna alongside Vittorio ...

Saturday night’s Lyric Opera of Chicago opening of “Tosca,” the Giacomo Puccini opera set as the Neapolitans abandoned Rome and the city fell to what would be years of annexation and Napoleonic ...

Anna Netrebko as Tosca is about to turn the tables on Scarpia (Michael Volle). Ken Howard / Met Opera Until last Saturday night, that is, when Anna Netrebko made her role debut as Tosca—her first ...

There are at least five good reasons Florida Grand Opera has performed Puccini’s “Tosca” almost a dozen times in 50 years, even featuring tenor Luciano Pavarotti in one of the roles in 1981. “To me, ...