Theatre
Puccini’s Tosca
- Artists
- Opera Project, Puccini
Following their successful production of Puccini’s Madam Butterfly in 2014, Opera Project return to Tobacco Factory Theatres this autumn for our co-production of another intensely dramatic and riveting masterpiece from Puccini.
Set in 1800, Tosca depicts the final hours of three of the most highly charged characters in all opera – Baron Scarpia (the ruthless and corrupt chief of the Roman police) the painter Mario Cavaradossi and his lover, the celebrated singer Floria Tosca. Rarely does opera lay witness to the demise of all of its major protagonists, but in Tosca we have it all – love, jealousy, lust, despair, torture and murder impregnate the story, from the opening escape of the political prisoner Cesare Angelotti to Scarpia’s final posthumous act of betrayal.
Theatrically gripping from start to finish, the score is perhaps Puccini’s most lavish, containing two of his most famous arias – Tosca’s Vissi d’arte and the brilliant tenor aria E lucevan le stelle.
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Singing in English, Opera Project’s top drawer cast includes three singers of major standing making their role debuts. ENO, Glyndebourne and Opera North principal soprano Kate Valentine takes on the title role with regular favourite, Welsh tenor Robyn Lyn Evans, singing her lover Cavaradossi. To complete the trio, the notorious role of Baron Scarpia is sung by internationally renowned baritone Nicholas Folwell, known throughout Europe and elsewhere for appearances in his signature role Alberich in Wagner’s mighty Ring Cycle.
Opera Project’s terrific twelve piece orchestra, central to the music and drama of this great opera, plays Jonathan Lyness’s arrangement of the score.
7.30pm, £38 (Wed 27 Sept/Tue 3/Wed 4/Tue 10 & Wed 11 Oct ), £42 (Fri 29 & Sat 30 Sept/Fri 6/Sat 7/Fri 13 & Sat 14 Oct). For more info, visit https://www.tobaccofactorytheatres.com/shows/puccinis-tosca/
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