They hear the cannon blast signifying an escaped prisoner, and Cavaradossi offers to escort Angelotti to a hiding place at his villa. Mario reassures her, and they plan to spend the evening together. Her jealousy explodes when she sees the blue eyes of the Magdalene. Tosca enters and immediately assumes that Mario was meeting another woman.
The exhausted and famished Angelotti gratefully accepts Cavaradossi’s lunch basket and quickly hides again as Tosca’s voice is heard outside. Cavaradossi, recognizing him, offers his help. The painter Mario Cavaradossi arrives to work on his portrait of Mary Magdalene–based on Angelotti’s sister, the Marchesa Attavanti, who has been a frequent visitor to the church. The escaped Bonapartist prisoner Cesare Angelotti enters the church, surveys the statue of the Blessed Virgin, and finds at her feet a key which he uses to enter his family’s private chapel to hide. With a dramatic story line and Puccini’s richly romantic score, book your opera tickets now for Tosca : one of the world’s most famous operas.The church of Sant’Andrea della Valle. After all: when passion and politics collide, love can prove a fatal weakness.Ĭhristof Loy’s production of Tosca sets the roller coaster story of love, lust, murder and intrigue against a production dripping in operatic grandeur, with Puccini‘s beautiful score conducted by one of Britain’s finest young conductors, Leo Hussain. With her artist beau Cavaradossi ( Adam Smith) competing for her affections against the sadistic police chief Scarpia ( Roland Wood), Tosca’s ( Sinead Campbell Wallace) story becomes intertwined with the tumultuous political landscape of Rome itself.Īlready the talk of the town, opera singer Tosca becomes increasingly desperate to stop Scarpia’s plans and must resort to deadly means to wrest back her freedom from those who would suppress it. Compromise is for the weak: and Tosca is nothing of the sort.
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