In the September issue of Bon Appétit, contributing editor Mickey Rapkin coaxed some of Tosca Cafe's most legendary patrons—Laurence Fishburne, Boz Scaggs, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Roman Coppola, Lauren ...

Every year, the vast open parking lot at the Santa Fe Opera in the lap of the Sangre de Cristo mountains is full of tailgaters — often with sumptuous dinners for the season’s opening night. “I think ...

San Diego Opera’s production of Tosca is winning high praise. KPBS arts reporter Beth Accomando speaks with director Lesley Koenig [ko-nig] who decided on an opera career at the ripe age of eight.

Giacomo Puccini's verismo-fueled Tosca (1900) runs on opera's highest octane – sex and violence. It speeds along, no time for detours, spinning its tale with a breakneck pace. Co-librettist Giacoso ...

Floria Tosca is a lusty dark-eyed singer who has captivated Napoleonic Rome. Her boyfriend Mario Cavaradossi is a painter who would seem to be based on the famous painter Michael Caravaggio. Baron ...

“Tosca” is back at Los Angeles Opera. The well-traveled production by British director John Caird, first seen here in 2013, has been revived. The cast, headed by popular Los Angeles native Angel Blue, ...