At LoftOpera’s ‘Tosca,’ Go for the Arias, Not the Express to Albany

The New York Times: Empty seats are an all-too-familiar sight at major opera houses these days, but LoftOpera had the opposite problem on Saturday night during its performance of “Tosca.” Daniel Ellis-Ferris, one of the company’s founders, urged the crowd of some 500 people who had assembled in an old bus depot in Bushwick, Brooklyn, to sit closer together on the benches arrayed in a section of the vast space. Other listeners sat on rugs on the floor just inches from the performers or stood against the back walls.