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Tosca

08.07.2024 7:30 PM

The 546th performance by The Royal Opera at the Royal Opera House.

APPROXIMATE TIMINGS

The performance lasts approximately 3 hours, including two intervals
Act I
50 minutes
Interval
25 minutes
Act II
45 minutes
Interval
25 minutes
Act III
35 minutes

GUIDANCE

Suitable for ages 12+

This production contains depictions of violence, sexual assault, implied torture and suicide. There are gunshots in Act III.

CREDITS

Music
Giacomo Puccini
Libretto
Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica
Director
Jonathan Kent
Designer
Paul Brown
Lighting designer
Mark Henderson

CAST

Conductor
Andrea Battistoni
Floria Tosca
Angel Blue
Mario Cavaradossi
Russell Thomas
Baron Scarpia
Aleksei Isaev
Spoletta
Colin Judson
Cesare Angelotti
Christian Federici
Sacristan
Jeremy White
Sciarrone
Jamie Woollard
Gaoler
John Morrissey
Chorus
Royal Opera Chorus
Royal Opera Extra Chorus
Royal Opera Extra Chorus
Orchestra
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Young Shepherd
Madeleine McGhee

Jamie Woollard is a Jette Parker Artist

Extra Chorus

Sopranos Joanne Appleby, Jessica Broad, Angela Caesar, Rachel Chapman, Janet Fairlie, Celeste Gattai, Shafali Jalota, Ella Kirkpatrick, Claire Mitcher, Claire Pendleton, Jane Read, Emily Rowley-Jones, Anna Samant

Mezzo-sopranos Morag Boyle, Mercè Bruguera Abelló, Deborah Davison, Karen Foster, Zoë Haydn, Frances Jellard, Helen Johnson, Lydia Marchione, Clare McCaldin, Deborah Miles-Johnson, Amy Sedgwick, Jennifer Westwood, Sidonie Winter

Tenors Allan Adams, Phillip Bell, Ed Choo, Jon English, Darrell Forkin, James Geer, Paul Hopwood, Geraint Hylton, Graeme Lauren, David Newman, Richard Reaville, James Scarlett, Andrew Sinclair, Pablo Strong, Alex Wall

Basses James Birchall, David Campbell, Oliver Gibbs, Ben Knight, John Morgan, Martin Nelson, David Poter-Thomas, Andrew Tinkler, Christopher Thornton-Holmes, Robert Winslade-Anderson

Actors

Harold Addo, Peter Benton, Barry Callan, Peter Cooney, Richard Gittins, Anthony Kurt-Gabel, Dana Myzer Laurence Pasqualini, Jason Sabin, Daniel Swan

Children’s Chorus from The Trinity School under Director of Music David Swinson

SYNOPSIS

ACT I

Cesare Angelotti, a Consul of the former Roman Republic, has escaped prison and seeks refuge in the Church of Sant’Andrea della Valle. The painter Mario Cavaradossi, a Republican sympathizer working in the church, promises to help him. Angelotti hides as Cavaradossi’s lover Floria Tosca arrives. The lovers’ meeting reveals Tosca’s passionate love and jealousy. When Tosca has gone, Cavaradossi instructs Angelotti to dress in the disguise left for him, and hide at Cavaradossi’s villa. Baron Scarpia arrives at the church. He suspects Cavaradossi of hiding Angelotti. When Tosca returns, Scarpia uses a fan left by Angelotti to make her believe that Cavaradossi is having an affair. Tosca leaves for Cavaradossi’s villa, and Scarpia instructs his assistant Spoletta to follow her and track down Angelotti.

INTERVAL

ACT II


Scarpia has arrested Cavaradossi. He summons Tosca to his apartment, and forces her to listen as Cavaradossi is tortured in the next room. Tosca reveals Angelotti’s hiding place. Scarpia condemns Cavaradossi to death but tells Tosca that he will free her lover if she will offer herself to him. In agony, Tosca agrees and Scarpia tells her he will arrange a mock execution. As Scarpia embraces Tosca, she fatally stabs him.

INTERVAL

ACT III


As dawn approaches, Cavaradossi waits for his execution at the top of the Castel Sant’Angelo. Tosca arrives and tells him what she has done. She instructs him on how to pretend to die in the mock execution. When the soldiers shoot, Tosca is impressed with her lover’s acting. But Scarpia has doublecrossed her and Cavaradossi really is dead. As Spoletta’s men arrive to arrest her for Scarpia’s murder, she leaps from the battlements to her death.

PRODUCTION CREDITS

Music preparation
Christopher Willis, André Callegaro, Henry Websdale, Edward Reeve, James Ham, Nicholas Ansdell-evans, Patrick Milne
Assistant Director
Franciska Ery
Italian Language Coach
Isabella Radcliffe
Additional Costume Maker
Becky Davies

André Callegaro and Edward Reeve are Jette Parker Artists

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