Opera in original language, with English subtitles. English National Opera opens its season with Puccini’s Tosca, in a staging by Christof Loy, new to London, but first performed by the Finnish National Opera in Helsinki in 2018. Production underwritten by The Annenberg Foundation The cast also includes Marcelo Álvarez as Cavaradossi and Georg Gagnidze as Scarpia.Ī co-production of the Metropolitan Opera, Teatro alla Scala, Milan, and Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich Luc Bondy, acclaimed for his imaginative theater and opera productions, directs. Soprano Karita Mattila, recently seen in this season’s Live in HD presentation of Salome, sings the title role for the first time outside her native Finland. The opera tells the story of three people-a famous opera singer, a free-thinking painter, and a sadistic chief of police-caught in a net of love and politics. It premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome. “Tosca combines Puccini’s glorious musical inspiration with the melodramatic vitality of one of the great Hitchcock films,” says Met Music Director James Levine, who conducts this newproduction. Tosca is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica
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