Rome, June 1800: Cesare Angelotti, an escaped political prisoner, rushes into the Church of Sant’Andrea della Valle. After finding the key his sister has hidden for him, he hides in his family’s ...

Last summer I remember cursing loudly when I saw the cheap seats for the Covent Garden Tosca had all gone. Though some experts look down on it – the American critic Joseph Kernan called it “a shabby ...