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 ...

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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 ...

And – wait for it – Tosca is with a reduced orchestra, not because some bright spark has decided to freshen it up, modernise it, but for a simpler, more compelling reason: there is no money. What can ...

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 ...

Demonstrators outside the Royal Opera House protested the Russian soprano’s return to the London stage in a new production of “Tosca.” By Alex Marshall Reporting from the opening night of “Tosca” in ...

Natalya Romaniw, the star of the Welsh National Orchestra staging of Tosca - Dafydd Owen There were no protests in the streets for this Tosca. The Royal Opera’s new production was loudly criticised ...

If the Royal Opera had aimed to open their new season in a blaze of publicity, they could hardly have done better than to invite the controversial soprano Anna Netrebko back to the house for the first ...

A new Tosca at the Royal Opera was always destined to be a talking point. Any production of Puccini’s 1900 masterpiece carries a burden of expectation. This taut drama, spiced with love and violence, ...

There were no protests in the streets for this Tosca. The Royal Opera’s new production was loudly criticised for the Russian links of its soprano Anna Netrebko; by a pleasing symmetry, the star of ...

Puccini’s Tosca is an opera that thrives on excesses of emotion, violence and drama. Floria Tosca’s climatic demise is the last of a sequence of events driven by romantic jealousy, the anguish of ...

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 ...