“My style is my signature,” is a phrase famously attributed to trailblazing jewelry designer Suzanne Belperron, who never signed her work. It’s also a principle that is ingrained in the DNA of Bottega ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you come to opera via film musicals and, later, stage shows, Tosca is amongst the most accessible. The story of the lovers and the evil apparatchik is told at a furious pace, trauma after trauma ...

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,” ...

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 ...

LENOX — In a crash of drums and a blare of trumpets, Sir Bryn Terfel materialized behind the chorus of giddy Roman youth and, as the villainous police chief, Baron Scarpia, sent them fleeing with a ...

Tosca Musk is the CEO and co-founder of Passionflix. She chatted about directing and co-writing the new series “The Black Dagger Brotherhood,” which will premiere on June 5th on her streaming service ...

Soprano Nadine Sierra returns to the stage in one of opera's most formidable roles. PREVIEW: 0:35 Pavarotti: A Voice for the Ages - Preview Some of Pavarotti's finest performances and in duet with pop ...

A great classic opera, a cast of strong and impassioned singers and players, beautifully designed sets. It would be hard to find a more compelling trifecta of talent than Seattle Opera displays in the ...