Puccini’s Tosca was once famously dismissed as “a shabby little shocker.” A century after the opera’s premiere, its detractors can still be heard grumbling about its sensationalism and over-the-top ...
It’s hard to decide for which audience French filmmaker Benoit Jacquot aims the new treatment of “Tosca” (2001), Puccini’s opera. A lay public unfamiliar with opera? Opera cognoscenti who have ...