Last Thursday, I went to see the opera Tosca at the Astra Theatre in Gozo. Opera performances are now a permanent feature of the theatre calendar in Gozo, and their high standard draws the crowds of ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It would be easy to come out of some performances of Puccini’s Tosca unaware that the opera was set against the ...

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 ...