The setting shift to 1930s upper-crust America gives the revival of the farcical operatic comedy a modern zing and just feels ...

San Francisco Opera will open its upcoming season with Verdi’s stirring political drama “Simon Boccanegra,” signaling an ...

Conventional wisdom has it that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s “Così fan tutte” has been a bankable opera house favorite for more ...

Starting with the 2026–2027 season, Gustavo Dudamel and the New York Philharmonic will partner with Carnegie Hall on a five-year project that will annually bring exciting presentations of opera in ...

Christos Makridis is also a co-founder of Living Opera and the Living Opera Foundation and founder of CM Culture Management. He is also an affiliate and contributor to several think tank communities ...

A new production of Puccini’s Tosca at an institution like the Royal Opera that is reliant on a regular turnover of repertoire classics is always a big deal. When the director is Oliver Mears, the ...

Opera has announced an expansion of its partnership with Google to integrate the latest Gemini AI models across much of its browser lineup. The expansion means the Gemini-powered side panel previously ...

Puccini classic was first staged in Rome in 1900. Italy will mark the 125th anniversary of Giacomo Puccini's Tosca by screening a production of the much-loved classic live from Rome's opera house on ...

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 ...

Does it matter how good she was? Because Anna Netrebko was very good indeed. At the Royal Opera House in London on September 11th, the Russian-born soprano sang the title role in “Tosca”—Puccini’s ...

Russian soprano Anna Netrebko returned to the Royal Opera House in Puccini’s Tosca, starring in the eponymous role - Alastair Muir/amx If the Royal Opera had aimed to open their new season in a blaze ...

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 ...