Opera: Thrilling Tosca with an Irish star
Puccini’s opera is now regarded as the most riveting and dramatic of his works
Do you remember that wind-up movie from the mid-1960s, The Russians are Coming, The Russians are Coming? That was in the bad old days of the USSR, when we first became aware of Sputniks, inter-ballistic missiles and a big grey wall in Berlin. Well, despite the recent unwelcome Beast from the East – which may or may not be the first shot in a new Cold War - it’s quite clear the Russians ...
