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 …
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Russian soprano Anna Netrebko silences her critics with a tour de force as Tosca, says our critic Tully Potter ○
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A pity, then, about the naff production. Gerald Finley is one of the foremost baritones of our day - but here, his portrayal of the sinister police chief Baron Scarpia is reduced to the status of a s…
Tosca review – punchy new Puccini rises above the ‘Shame on you’ Russian soprano protests ○
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Outrage over the casting of Anna Netrebko didn’t make it to the inside of the auditorium – where roars of approval greeted this high-stakes game of blood-spattered conflict d…
Protesters target Royal Opera House over performance by ‘Putin’s diva’ ○
Anna Netrebko’s presence on stage called a ‘disgrace’, despite soprano condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Dozens of protesters have gathered outside the Royal Opera House to demonstrate against a…
9 months ago
VALERII ZALUZHNYI: How Russian soprano's voice will drown out the real cries of Ukrainians as the Royal Opera House 'betrays' millions ○
The acclaimed soprano Anna Netrebko will step onto the stage as Tosca. But for me and for millions of Ukrainians, every note, every tear will sound different, writes Valerii Zaluzhnyi.
Fright at the opera! Royal Opera House's forthcoming woke production of Puccini's Tosca includes EIGHT trigger warnings, including the craziest one yet ○
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So far, so woke . But now comes a trigger warning with a difference: for the venue is now alerting its audiences to - horror of horrors - the curtain-up bell.
As Putin’s bombs fall on Ukraine, the Royal Opera House had a call to make about Anna Netrebko. It made the wrong one | Martin Kettle ○
The Russian soprano says she has condemned the war and has no affinity with this Kremlin. But hosting her still seems unwise
Puccini’s Tosca is high on the list of operas I don’t much care if I never …
10 months ago
UK’s Royal Ballet and Opera withdraws Tosca production in Tel Aviv ○
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Show scheduled for next year pulled after 182 members of UK company sign letter criticising RBO’s stance on Gaza
The Royal Ballet and Opera has pulled its 2026 production run of Tosca at the Israeli O…
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