Sondra Radvanovsky: It's really been my therapist, opera has. It's been my way of dealing with all of my issues in life, not just the death of people close to me and illness, but also happy moments, ...
Saturday night’s Lyric Opera of Chicago opening of “Tosca,” the Giacomo Puccini opera set as the Neapolitans abandoned Rome and the city fell to what would be years of annexation and Napoleonic ...
Puccini is one of Michelle Bradley's favorite composers, and she's in San Diego to sing his Tosca for the San Diego Opera company. We were originally scheduled to talk in person, but a rehearsal ...
The pitfalls you might not notice: The start of the “Te Deum” scene in Act I of “Tosca,” pictured here, is problematic, says conductor Speranza Scappucci, because of the changing meters. Wu Wei, ...
Back when she got her start on the podium as an undergrad studying composition, Eun Sun Kim says becoming an opera conductor “was not at all in my agenda.” If you’ve ever met a conductor, even once, ...
A roller coaster story of love, lust, jealousy, murder and political intrigue, the opera "Tosca" comes to Whitefish Nov. 23 as part of the Metropolitan Opera Live in HD program. Sung in Italian with ...