Tosca

Show Info Cast & Creative Age & Content Guide

Genre Opera/Dance

Venue

London Coliseum Get directions

First Performance 26/11/2011

Closing 29/01/2012

Running Time 2h50

Puccini’s ever-popular tragic opera Tosca is a fast-moving story of torture, murder and attempted rape.

A tense political and sexual thriller, it is set in Rome at the time of Napoleon’s invasion of Italy.

This production is Tosca is a revival of Catherine Malfitano’s staging. The American soprano has a unique insight into the opera, having herself been a celebrated Tosca on all of the world’s major operatic stages. In 1992 she even starred in a televised production of the opera, which was filmed in Rome at the real locations in which the piece is set The show was seen by more than a billion viewers around the world.

In this production, internationally acclaimed British soprano Claire Rutter, who received glowing reviews for her performance in English National Opera’s recent production of Lucrezia Borgia, takes the title role of Tosca.

Learn more about London operas within the West End.

Cast

Claire Rutter, Gwyn Hughes Jones, Anthony Michaels-Moore, Matthe Hargreaves, Henry Waddington, Scott Davies, Graeme Danby

Creative

Director - Catherine Malfitano

Producer - English National Opera

Conductor - Stephen Lord

Lighting Designer - David Martin Jacques

Set Designer - Frank Schloessmann

Music By - Puccini

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