“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 ...

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 ...

She came, she sang, she conquered. Having racked up precisely 70 years of Toscas, I can report that Anna Netrebko’s rendition of the great aria ‘Vissi d’arte’ was among the finest I have heard – and ...

The Welsh-Ukrainian singer was in ravishing voice, and the orchestra brought richness to a reduced score, while Edward Dick’s production seemed chillingly relevant Welsh National Opera have opened ...

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 ...

The new Tosca at Royal Opera marks the debut of Jakub Hrusa as music director but also the return of Anna Netrebko to the spotlight Anna Netrebko as Floria Tosco in Oliver Mears’ Tosca at Royal Opera ...

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 ...

Oliver Mears’ new Tosca takes a serious new look at a familiar piece “This production includes depictions of executions, violence, blood, gore, murder, sexual assault, implied torture and suicide,” ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It would be easy to come out of some performances of Puccini’s Tosca unaware that the opera was set against the ...

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 ...

As is the way with Theatreland these days, the Royal Opera House’s forthcoming production of Puccini’s Tosca carries eight trigger warnings relating to murder, sexual assault and torture. So far, so ...