Carlo Guelfi will sing Scarpia in this evening's performance of Puccini's Tosca, replacing George Gagnidze, who is ill. Gagnidze is expected to return for the October 3 performance. Guelfi is also ...

San Diego Opera is showcasing modern operas and even a world premiere one next month but it’s also serving up grand opera with its production of Puccini’s "Tosca." When Darth Vader first appears in ...

Bass-baritone William Powers has sung hundreds of roles over a 30-year international operatic career, but none gives him such pleasure as the role of the rapacious Scarpia in Puccini’s “Tosca.” “I ...

An art form defined by its outsize characters and emotions, opera needs delicious villains to soar: the treacherous Iago, imported from Shakespeare’s “Othello” via Verdi; the Queen of the Night, grief ...

John Caird is best known to Broadway and L.A. auds for his staging of “Nicholas Nickleby” and “Les Miserables,” but he also helms operas, such as “Tosca,” now on display at LA Opera. If ever there’s ...

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 ...