Organization

Conductor

Jacob Ashworth

Stage director

Shadi G

Set designer

Reid Thompson

Stage combat master

Rick Sordelet

Costume designer

Mika Eubanks

Lighting designer

Oliver Wason

Sound designer

Michael Costagliola

Assistant Director

Yekta Khaghani

Assistant Conductor

Mona Seyed Bolorforosh

Translator

Peregrine Heard

Assistant Costume designer

Allison Esannason

Singer

Soprano

Anush Avetisyan

Floria Tosca

Baritone

Gustavo Feulien

Baron Scarpia

Tenor

Chad Kranak

Mario Cavaradossi

Christopher Nazarian

The sacristan

Bass

Joseph Lodato

Cesare Angelotti

Child vocalist

A shepherd

Reza Mirjalili

Sciarrone

A jailer

Spoletta

Heartbeat Opera

Italian

Tosca

New York City

United States

Baruch Performing Arts Center

Tosca Puccini

Public

English

Persian

Approved

Get your tix for TOSCA! https://www.heartbeatopera.org/spring-festival-2023A new 100-minute adaptation of Puccini's classic. Sung in English. Subtitles in Fa...

Heartbeat's new production of Tosca translates Puccini's masterpiece of love and revolution from Rome's 1800 police state to the modern-day world of religious authoritarian regimes. This brand new co-adaptation by Iranian-American director Shadi G. and Heartbeat Artistic Director Jacob Ashworth focuses on a troupe of singer activists living in an oppressive dictatorship who have decided that tonight they will risk everything to perform the uncensored Tosca. They race to tell their whole story before the authoritarian forces lurking in the wings press in. This radical adaptation asks what it means to make art where freedom of expression does not exist — where even love is banned from the stage.

Puccini’s score is transformed in a breathtaking new arrangement by Daniel Schlosberg, featuring our biggest band yet: three cellos, bass, piano, flute, trumpet, and horn, conducted by Jacob Ashworth.

Tosca by Puccini, From (2023/2023), Directed by Shadi G,, Conductor Jacob Ashworth, Baruch Performing Arts Center, New York City, United States

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