Performer: Béatrice Uria-Monzon

Daniele’s Abbado’s black-box production of Don Carlo augurs a crash landing with no survivors.

Six years after its contested 2009 world première at the Metropolitan Opera, Luc Bondy's disputed production of Giacomo Puccini's Tosca bowed its third Teatro alla Scala staging here on Monday night.

Last night’s performance, the second after a serious casting face-lift held to that tradition, and was very well received despite its inherent flaws, thanks to some very fine singing.