Half Italian, half Tunbridge Wells, Freddie De Tommaso is a sensational Cavaradossi. Elsewhere, there’s maximum Messiah uplift ...

Hopefully in a year of so, when recordings of the Los Angeles Opera replace the Metropolitan Opera broadcasts, a Saturday morning will be devoted to the production of Puccini’s “Tosca” that opened ...

Visually, there’s a lot to bowl you over and send you home thinking in this Irish National Opera production of Puccini’s Tosca. Perhaps others find also, as I do, that melodic fragments and orchestral ...

Sometimes you get the picture of what a performance will be right from its beginning. This was one of those times. Seattle Opera's film of Puccini's Tosca, that can be streamed starting June 25, ...

With its screams, sex, bells and bloodshed Puccini’s opera was initially derided as a noisy disaster. Ahead of Glyndebourne’s first ever production, we look the ‘shabby little shocker’ that’s become ...