Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. PUCCINI is on the way to Jerusalem. (photo credit: Lev Algredit) Two operas will be featured in performances at the Jerusalem ...

Love, power and betrayal take centre stage in Tosca, a psychological thriller by Giacomo Puccini. Barrie Kosky’s razor-sharp production, which received high praise in 2022, returns to Dutch National ...

English National Opera’s 2020 production of Giacomo Puccini’s Madam Butterfly - Corbis Entertainment Among all the composers whose operas have continued to enthral audiences, Giacomo Puccini ...

What can a great company placed in this position by idiot, philistine apparatchiks do? Well, what they can do is stage the most brilliant performance of Puccini’s warhorse that I have seen, and I’ve ...

Amongst the splendour of Rome, danger and betrayal bloom. Floria Tosca and Mario Cavaradossi live for each other and their art. When Cavaradossi bravely helps an escaped prisoner, the young couple ...

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 ...

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 ...