September 11, 2023 at 0:00pm BST Svetlana Kasyan as Tosca in NI Opera's production at Belfast's Grand Opera House Picture by Neil Harrison The first thing to say about Northern Ireland Opera’s ...

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WHEN baritone Brendan Collins dons his costume for Northern Ireland Opera's upcoming production of Tosca, he says that will be the moment he truly becomes "the villain of all villains". He has been ...

I, like those excitable people who wrote the fascinatingly vivid programme notes about the backstory and original Tosca play, should just take Prozac and calm down. Last night’s production isn’t about ...

Well, it's four-and-a-half stars really: five if you haven't seen Jonathan Kent's magnificent production of this great Puccini opera before; four if you already know how good it is. Well, it's ...

18:38, Sun, Jan 28, 2018 Updated: 18:52, Sun, Jan 28, 2018 It is a production that keeps on giving with Paul Brown’s naturalistic design placing each of the three acts exactly where Puccini intended.

Opera Orlando opens its 2023-24 All for Art season On the MainStage with Puccini's tragic masterwork Tosca on October 27 at 7:30 p.m. and October 29 at 2 p.m. in Steinmetz Hall at Dr. Phillips Center.

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 ...

The Royal Opera House in London is mounting a new production of Tosca for the first time in 40 years. Star Angela Gheorghiu and director Jonathan Kent explain why the time is right to re-evaluate ...

As in the Onegin, the principals are vocally up to the mark - and that's no mean achievement here given three big British voices going flat-out for some of the toughest physical singing in all Italian ...

Last summer I remember cursing loudly when I saw the cheap seats for the Covent Garden Tosca had all gone. Though some experts look down on it – the American critic Joseph Kernan called it “a shabby ...

Jonathan Kent’s production of Tosca does what it says on the tin, and in the capable hands of revival director Andrew Sinclair tells the story plain and simply which for most opera goers is enough, ...