Visually, there’s a lot to bowl you over and send you home thinking in this Irish National Opera production of Puccini’s Tosca. Perhaps others find also, as I do, that melodic fragments and orchestral ...

1. It’s one of the most 'operatic' operas ever written. If you asked a complete novice to draw a picture of an opera, the result might look a bit like Tosca. It has it all: a castle with a beautiful ...

Jonathan Kent’s 2006 Tosca returns to Covent Garden for a tenth time and it’s bloody, bold but not quite as resolute as it ought to be. At its best this production favours the thriller element like ...

The phrase “grand opera” conjures images of opulently dressed performers singing atop a monumental set, but few patrons truly consider the artistry and labor that goes into such epic entertainment. As ...

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