Why these extravagant gestures to Puccini? While celebrations connected to an artist’s birth are quite common, making a big fuss over the anniversary of their death happens far less frequently. But ...

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 ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by The powerhouse soprano, already a company stalwart at 37, still seems to be figuring out a character whose moods change on a dime. By Zachary Woolfe ...

West Bay Opera stages Puccini’s “Tosca.” With its themes of sex, politics and religion, the opera feels as topical as ever in today’s climate. Courtesy West Bay Opera If it’s true that classic works ...

Heartbeat Opera, which specializes in rethinking classic titles for contemporary audiences, opened its first fully staged new productions in 3 1/2 years at the Baruch Performing Arts Center last week.

In our technology-dominated times, a “classic” production of a perennial operatic favorite is always welcome. Seattle Opera has granted every traditional opera fan’s wish in its latest take on Giacomo ...

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NEW YORK — The stakes could not have been higher. The chaos could not have been wilder. It’s fair to say that no production in the Metropolitan Opera’s history has been more vexed than the new staging ...