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What should opera look like in a world marked by rapid industrial and technological development? Though such questions certainly resonate in the 21st century, opera composers were asking the same ...

ROME (AP) — Behind a rusty gate near Rome’s Circus Maximus is a building passed daily by hordes of tourists. They’re oblivious to the fact that behind its faded, flaking paint is a hive of activity ...

In all its 92-year history, Glyndebourne had never before staged Puccini's Tosca but this year it was chosen to open their Festival. Despite some great performances, it did not live up to expectations ...

Carmen Giannattasio was studying music and literature with an eye toward journalism. She didn’t know opera and had no interest in singing it. Then her piano teacher in the southern Italian town of ...

This week, Utah Opera opens its production of Puccini's Tosca-one of the most dramatic works in the operatic repertoire, telling the tempestuous tale of a love triangle between a famous singer, a ...

Tosca is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on January 14, 1900. The work, based on ...

Content Warning: This article mentions sexual violence. “For myself the violent conquest has stronger relish than the soft surrender,” baritone Daniel Sutin croons in Italian, thirstily eyeing the ...

When Giacomo Puccini’s “shabby little shocker” comes to the stage of the Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts this weekend, baritone Scott Hendricks will be singing a familiar role as the ...

It can be said that over the last two-plus years of perilous times for culture in Santa Barbara, opera has been down but never out. Under the intrepid and resourceful guidance of Opera Santa Barbara’s ...

Italy celebrated the inclusion of Italian opera singing on the World Heritage List with a gala concert at the Arena of Verona on Friday night that was broadcast on national television. The concert, ...

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