A roller coaster story of love, lust, jealousy, murder and political intrigue, the opera "Tosca" comes to Whitefish Nov. 23 as part of the Metropolitan Opera Live in HD program. Sung in Italian with ...

Bass-baritone William Powers has sung hundreds of roles over a 30-year international operatic career, but none gives him such pleasure as the role of the rapacious Scarpia in Puccini’s “Tosca.” “I ...

LENOX — In a crash of drums and a blare of trumpets, Sir Bryn Terfel materialized behind the chorus of giddy Roman youth and, as the villainous police chief, Baron Scarpia, sent them fleeing with a ...

Watch Daniel Scofield discuss playing Scarpia in Opera Orlando's production of Tosca below! Opera Orlando presents Puccini’s tragically grand Tosca to kick off its 2023-24 All for Art MainStage series ...

Arizona Opera conductor Joel Revzen loves Puccini's "Tosca." "It is probably the most powerful dramatic opera that Puccini ever wrote," he explained as Arizona Opera was about to open the production ...

Unctuous and bullying by turns, Morgan Pearse’s Scarpia is a sharp-suited populist schemer whose election posters – stuck across the walls of Yannis Thavoris’s finely detailed set – proclaim him (in ...

It has been a busy Puccini year, with this Friday marking the centenary of his death. Rather than using this as a reason for innovation and adventure, the Royal Opera has revived, not for the first ...

Lise Davidsen stars in the title role alongside Freddie De Tommaso in his company debut as her lover Cavaradossi with Quinn Kelsey as the chief of police Scarpia. Met Music Director Yannick ...

Tosca is a difficult opera to stage outside of its strictly prescribed time and setting. Based on the French playwright Victorien Sardou’s 1887 play La Tosca, Giacomo Puccini’s opera of love smothered ...

In our technology-dominated times, a “classic” production of a perennial operatic favorite is always welcome. Seattle Opera has granted every traditional opera fan’s wish in its latest take on Giacomo ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick The bass-baritone Bryn Terfel returned to the Met for the first time in 13 years, alongside Sondra Radvanovsky, one of the great Toscas ...

Floria Tosca is no shrinking violet. For Adrianne Pieczonka, that makes performing as the heroine of Giacomo Puccini's Tosca a rare thrill. "I haven't done very much Puccini in my repertoire," said ...