Star tenor Jonathan Tetelman performs as Cavaradossi, making his company debut in his signature role, and Grammy-nominated baritone Rod Gilfry returns to HGO as Scarpia.Ī co-production with Lyric Opera of Chicago.Ģ Hours 31 Minutes. Though celebrated composer Giacomo Puccini wrote Tosca in Italy at the turn of the twentieth century, the story of the opera is set almost exactly a century. Soprano Tamara Wilson, an HGO Studio alumna who is now one of the most recognizable voices in opera, performs her role debut as the fiery Tosca in this riveting revival production directed by frequent HGO collaborator John Caird. Tosca tries to save Cavaradossi’s life by striking a terrible bargain with Scarpia, but he betrays her-and her revenge comes too late. Puccini's tragic opera Tosca is set in Rome amid the political and religious upheavals of the turn of the eighteenth century. To make matters worse, Scarpia decides he wants Tosca for himself, jails her lover, and threatens to kill him. But their romance is doomed by the toxic Baron Scarpia, who is on the hunt for the escaped political prisoner whom Cavaradossi is protecting. Tosca, the popular opera by Giacomo Puccini, first premiered in Rome in 1900, telling the tale of two lovers who are threatened by an evil police chief at. The story is set in Rome in the early 1800s, where the singer Floria Tosca and the painter Cavaradossi are in love. Opera Giacomo Puccini Tosca (Opera in 3 Acts) World premiere: 14 January 1900, Teatro Costanzi, Rome, Italy Premiere in Russia: 1900 Odessa Opera House, the.
A combustible mix of political crime, love, and obsession explodes in tragedy in Puccini’s masterpiece, Tosca, one of the world’s favorite operas.