With a dramatic story line and Puccini’s richly romantic score, book your opera tickets now for Tosca : one of the world’s most famous operas. Her lover is Mario Cavaradossi, a young artist and Bomapartist sympathizer.

( See French revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Based on French playwright Victorien Sardou ’s popular play La Tosca (1887), the opera is about political intrigue and romance in the days of the Napoleonic wars. After all: when passion and politics collide, love can prove a fatal weakness.Ĭhristof Loy’s production of Tosca sets the roller coaster story of love, lust, murder and intrigue against a production dripping in operatic grandeur, with Puccini‘s beautiful score conducted by one of Britain’s finest young conductors, Leo Hussain. Tosca, opera in three acts by Italian composer Giacomo Puccini (Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa) that premiered at the Costanzi Theatre in Rome on January 14, 1900. With her artist beau Cavaradossi ( Adam Smith) competing for her affections against the sadistic police chief Scarpia ( Roland Wood), Tosca’s ( Sinead Campbell Wallace) story becomes intertwined with the tumultuous political landscape of Rome itself.Īlready the talk of the town, opera singer Tosca becomes increasingly desperate to stop Scarpia’s plans and must resort to deadly means to wrest back her freedom from those who would suppress it. But when her lover, Cavaradossi, is arrested by Baron Scarpia, Chief of Police, she finds herself. Compromise is for the weak: and Tosca is nothing of the sort. Opera singer Floria Tosca is used to being centre-stage.

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