TAMPA — In choosing Tosca to conclude its 22nd season, Opera Tampa is not so much making a statement as blowing a kiss. That affection is for opera itself, a relatively new concept in which a dream ...

"He's a cop. Above everything, he's a cop.'' That's legendary baritone Sherrill Milnes describing Scarpia, the bad guy in Puccini's operatic potboiler Tosca. Scarpia was one of Milnes' signature roles ...

In 1889 Giacomo Puccini wrote to his publisher about getting the operatic rights to Victorien Sardou’s melodrama “La Tosca,” which the playwright had written for Sarah Bernhardt: “In this ‘Tosca’ I ...

Every year, the vast open parking lot at the Santa Fe Opera in the lap of the Sangre de Cristo mountains is full of tailgaters — often with sumptuous dinners for the season’s opening night. “I think ...

SAN FRANCSICO — There are two sensational performances in San Francisco Opera’s “Tosca” at the War Memorial Opera House, a production that is firing on all cylinders at the midpoint of its run. In ...