08/24/13 – TOSCA – 1:00PM

Los Angeles Opera

TOSCA by Giacomo Puccini

Sung in Italian

A fiery prima donna is forced to play a role she never imagined when she becomes trapped between her allegiance to her rebel lover and the scheming of a treacherous police chief who will stop at nothing in his lust for her. The explosive triangle comes to a hair-raising conclusion in one of opera’s bloodiest, most intense dramas.

One of the most popular of all operas, Tosca is a passionate tale set to some of Puccini’s most openly beautiful and passionate music.

CAST/CREW

Floria Tosca Sondra Radvanovsky
Mario Cavaradossi Marco Berti
Baron Scarpia Lado Ataneli
Cesare Angelotti Joshua Bloom
The Sacristan Philip Cokorinos
Spoletta Rodell Rosel
Sciarrone Daniel Armstrong++
Jailor Hunter Phillips+
Young Girl Eden McCoy*

Conductor Plácido Domingo
Director John Caird*
Scenic and Costume Design Bunny Christie*
Lighting Designer Duane Schuler
Chorus Director Grant Gershon
Fight Director Ed Douglas

* LA Opera debut artist
+ Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program member
++ Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program alumnus

photo credits: Robert Millard