We first want to tell you about the wonderful concert opera, The Capulets and the Montagues that Opera San Antonio is presenting this weekend. A concert opera is pretty much what the name implies: an opera sung with musical accompaniment but without sets, costumes and the mass scenes of market places, battles, castles, balls, etc.

None of the main characters in Giacomo Puccini’s “Tosca” survive, but the audience Thursday night for Opera San Antonio’s production was treated to an ultra dramatic evening.

Nowadays, many stage directors try to present classical theatrical works in contemporary setting to make them somehow more relevant, but E. Loren Meeker had no desire to go in that direction with her current staging of Giacomo Puccini’s opera Tosca, produced by Opera San Antonio. The show will premiere Thursday at the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts.

Baritone Michael Chioldi says the classic opera’s themes are still relevant to today’s audiences

The title role of Tosca, Jennifer Rowley, made an appearance on Kens5 this morning.

Opera San Antonio has announced the cast for its upcoming production of Puccini’s “Tosca.” Jennifer Rowley will bring her acclaimed turn in the title role alongside side Rafael Davila as Cavaradossi and Michael Chioldi as Scarpia. Francesco Milioto is set to conduct the production by E. Loren Meeker.

Read the essay from E. Loren Meeker, describing her time as a director in the opera world.

Charles Gounod’s opera “Faust” may be one of the most loved classical operas in the world but it has not been seen in San Antonio since the late John Alexander sang the title role in 1969. That was fifty years ago!

Opera San Antonio cracked open its landmark fifth season Thursday with a lavish, touching production of Giuseppe Verdi’s beloved “La Traviata,” the company’s third Verdi show in its history.

When I first decided that I wanted to pursue a career as a professional singer, it never occurred to me that being born without my right hand would ever be an issue. To some extent, it never really has been. Yet, in other ways, it has played a significant role in shaping the artist that I have become today.

Though it had its premiere in 1896 and the story’s setting is 19th-century Paris, Puccini’s La Bohème remains strikingly apposite today in any big city with a concentration of struggling young artists and intellectuals and a vast gap between rich and the poor.

Giacomo Puccini’s “La Bohème” is an opera about the young and aimed at the young of heart.

On a frigid winter morning at the warehouse of A.T. Jones & Sons costume shop in Mount Vernon, longtime owner and operator George Goebel is comfortably seated at a table and working on a headpiece—a finicky thing inside of which he’s wedged a plastic container for structure and is now sewing in seams.