A pregnant disabled fan was forced to defend herself after Example mistakenly told her to 'get up and dance' at the O2 Arena in London. The woman, who is 27 weeks pregnant, shared the awkward moment ...

If any soprano is custom-built for the role of Floria Tosca, it is Maria Meneghini Callas. From her first entrance at Manhattan’s Metropolitan Opera last week, she made the Puccini heroine a creature ...

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“My style is my signature,” is a phrase famously attributed to trailblazing jewelry designer Suzanne Belperron, who never signed her work. It’s also a principle that is ingrained in the DNA of Bottega ...

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Opera lovers arriving at Covent Garden this week for the start of the new season were greeted by Ukrainian flags and scores of picketing protesters. “While she sings, Ukraine bleeds,” read the ...

If you come to opera via film musicals and, later, stage shows, Tosca is amongst the most accessible. The story of the lovers and the evil apparatchik is told at a furious pace, trauma after trauma ...

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 ...

In the end, it was a happy surprise that so much of beauty and musical integrity emerged from the exercise – and that the production by Steve Elias brought a convincing fresh interpretation to the ...

SeokJong Baek, you clever devil! You made me care about Cavaradossi! Who? you might ask, to which I reply, “The tenor in Puccini’s ‘Tosca.’ You know, the good guy.” More specifically, he’s the title ...

LENOX — In a crash of drums and a blare of trumpets, Sir Bryn Terfel materialized behind the chorus of giddy Roman youth and, as the villainous police chief, Baron Scarpia, sent them fleeing with a ...