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 ...

When soprano Maria Natale was growing up in California, she was intrigued by the music her paternal grandfather listened to in his apartment.

Rutland native Suzanne Kantorski is taking time from her busy performance schedule to return home to play one of the greatest soprano heroines in all of opera, Tosca. “This is the very first time I’ve ...

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 ...

Giacomo Puccini’s verismo-fueled Tosca (1900) runs on opera’s highest octane – sex and violence. It speeds along, no time for detours, spinning its tale with a breakneck pace. Co-librettist Giacoso ...