Mears plays mostly by the Puccini/Giacosa/Illica rulebook of love and terror in totalitarian Rome - foolish the director who would throw the musically and ...
She came, she sang, she conquered. Having racked up precisely 70 years of Toscas, I can report that Anna Netrebko’s rendition of the great aria ‘Vissi d’arte’ was among the finest I have heard – and ...
Opera lovers arriving at Covent Garden this week for the start of the new season were greeted by Ukrainian flags and scores of picketing protesters. “While she sings, Ukraine bleeds,” read the ...
Puccini’s Tosca is an opera that thrives on excesses of emotion, violence and drama. Floria Tosca’s climatic demise is the last of a sequence of events driven by romantic jealousy, the anguish of ...
The new Tosca at Royal Opera marks the debut of Jakub Hrusa as music director but also the return of Anna Netrebko to the spotlight Anna Netrebko as Floria Tosco in Oliver Mears’ Tosca at Royal Opera ...
Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. We open on a bombed church into which a fugitive, Angelotti, runs. He finds ...
Oliver Mears’ new Tosca takes a serious new look at a familiar piece “This production includes depictions of executions, violence, blood, gore, murder, sexual assault, implied torture and suicide,” ...
She has not yet taken the stage, but upcoming performances by Russian soprano Anna Netrebko at Britain’s Royal Opera House have drawn angry criticism from Kyiv and prompted protests in London as ...
As is the way with Theatreland these days, the Royal Opera House’s forthcoming production of Puccini’s Tosca carries eight trigger warnings relating to murder, sexual assault and torture. So far, so ...
The production at The Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv will not go ahead, after 182 members of staff at RBO signed an open letter to management. The Royal Ballet and Opera (RBO) has pulled its 2026 ...
SeokJong Baek, you clever devil! You made me care about Cavaradossi! Who? you might ask, to which I reply, “The tenor in Puccini’s ‘Tosca.’ You know, the good guy.” More specifically, he’s the title ...