Name: Tosca
Start: 2009-09-21T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2010-05-13T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Metropolitan Opera House

Organization

Singer

Soprano

Karita Mattila

Floria Tosca

Daniela Dessì

Elizabeth Blancke-Biggs

Tenor

Marcelo Álvarez

Mario Cavaradossi

Jonas Kaufmann

Marcello Giordani

Baritone

Juha Uusitalo

Baron Scarpia

George Gagnidze

Bryn Terfel

Paul Plishka

The sacristan

John Del Carlo

Bass

David Pittsinger

Cesare Angelotti

David Crawford

A jailer

Keith Miller

James Courtney

Sciarrone

Jeffrey Wells

Eduardo Valdes

Spoletta

Joel Sorensen

Conductor

James Levine

Joseph Colaneri

Philippe Auguin

Stage director

Luc Bondy

Set designer

Richard Peduzzi

Costume designer

Milena Canonero

The Metropolitan Opera

Others

Metropolitan Opera Choir

Orchestra

Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

Italian

Tosca

New York City

United States

Metropolitan Opera House

Puccini’s musical thriller of lust, murder, and politics is one of the most dramatically riveting operas in the repertoire. Luc Bondy’s production, with sets by Richard Peduzzi and costumes by Academy Award-winning designer Milena Canonero, opened the Met’s 2009–10 season. Karita Mattila stars as the beautiful and dangerously impulsive singer Floria Tosca. Marcelo Álvarez is her lover, the painter Cavaradossi, a political enemy of the powerful chief of police, Scarpia (George Gagnidze), who wants Tosca for himself.

Production booklet

Further reading