It had just about everything: a new production of a beloved work, Puccini's Tosca; a starry cast; music director James Levine in the pit — and from the audience, the loudest and most sustained booing ...

NEW YORK — Anna Netrebko must have felt enormous pressure Saturday at the Metropolitan Opera when for the first time anywhere she sang the title role of Puccini’s “Tosca.” This is a touchstone of the ...

With its screams, sex, bells and bloodshed Puccini’s opera was initially derided as a noisy disaster. Ahead of Glyndebourne’s first ever production, we look the ‘shabby little shocker’ that’s become o ...