Organization

Stage director

Jonathan Kent

Set designer

Paul Brown

Costume designer

Lighting designer

Mark Henderson

Singer

Bass

Jamie Woollard

Sciarrone

Soprano

Angel Blue

Floria Tosca

Sonya Yoncheva

Conductor

Andrea Battistoni

Christopher Willis

Tenor

Russell Thomas

Mario Cavaradossi

Yusif Eyvazov

Baritone

Ludovic Tézier

Baron Scarpia

Aleksei Isaev

Germán E. Alcántara

Cesare Angelotti

Christian Federici

Jeremy White

The sacristan

Colin Judson

Spoletta

Royal Opera House

Orchestra

Orchestra of the Royal Opera House

Others

Chorus of the Royal Opera House

Hubert Francis

Revival Director

Lucy Bradley

Italian

Tosca

London

United Kingdom

Main Stage

Tosca Puccini

Public

English

Approved

Set in Rome, 1800, Puccini's sweeping operatic thriller combines romance, Revolution, and a devastating twist. Tosca returns to the Royal Opera House Main St...

Set in Rome, 1800, Puccini's sweeping operatic thriller combines romance, revolution, and a devastating twist.

RUNNING TIME
The performance lasts about 3 hours, including two intervals
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GUIDANCE
Suitable for ages 12+
LANGUAGE
Sung in Italian with English surtitles

BACKGROUND
From Sardou's play to Puccini’s opera 

From the early 1890s Giacomo Puccini had toyed with adapting French playwright Victorien Sardou’s gripping melodrama  La Tosca into an opera, but only began serious work following the premiere of the critically acclaimed La bohème in 1896. Employing La bohème's gifted librettists Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica to streamline Sardou's complicated plot, Puccini’s Tosca premiered in 1900.  

With the city gripped by political unrest, fears of violence plagued the premiere at Rome’s Teatro Costanzi. However, Tosca  opened without incident, and although unpopular with critics who disliked its violence, it became an immediate success with the public and has remained a favourite ever since. 

Beauty and Bloodshed  

Jonathan Kent’s classic staging conjures all the beauty and bloodshed of 19th-century Rome, while the emotive music of Tosca’s score (featuring Cavaradossi’s aria, ‘Recondita armonia’ and Tosca’s poignant lament, ‘Vissi d’arte’), transports us inside the conflicted souls of its characters.  

Karen Kamensek and Alexander Soddy conduct this classic production, starring Ausrine Stundyte (also debuting), Marcelo Puente and Gabriele Viviani and Angel Blue, Sonya Yoncheva, Russell Thomas, Yusif Eyvazov, Ludovic Tézier and Ildar Abdrazakov. 

CREATIVES
MUSIC
Giacomo Puccini

LIBRETTO
Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica

DIRECTOR
Jonathan Kent

REVIVAL DIRECTOR
Lucy Bradley

DESIGNER
Paul Brown

LIGHTING DESIGNER
Mark Henderson

Tosca by Puccini, From (2024/2024), Directed by Jonathan Kent,, Conductor Andrea Battistoni, Christopher Willis, Royal Opera House, London, United Kingdom

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