TOSCA OPERA IN THE PARK UPDATE

TOSCA OPERA IN THE PARK UPDATE

An Important Update regarding the vaccination policy for Lyric Opera performances.Įnrich your opera experience with our Community Conversations series, exploring the question: Why does opera matter in Kansas City? Understand every word: Performed in Italian with English subtitles. LIBRETTIST Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa She lived for art and love and her willingness to trust an evil man doesn’t end well.

Facing ruthless tyranny and torture, Tosca’s revenge is bathed in verismo violence and sealed with a kiss. But we know that eventually, all that heavy, haunting beauty will begin to block out the sun. Also present is Puccini’s unrivaled ear for melodies that swirl like smoke trails, forming soft stacks of billowing clouds. From the start, Puccini’s penchant for verismo is as present as ever, and to further tighten the tension, each act plays out in real time – packing twists and terrors by the truckload into one 24-hour period. Fueled by jealousy, the Chief of Police pursues her artist lover for alleged treasonous acts, pausing only to pursue Tosca with a decidedly different set of acts in mind. But for Rome’s celebrated opera singer, Tosca, all is not well. Something to die for.Īll is fair in love and war.

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Before Tosca can be arrested she leaps to her death. Tosca rushes from her hiding place but the execution was real.

The soldiers take aim – Cavaradossi falls. She explains the plan: the firing squad will use blanks, he must fall to the ground as if dead and remain there until she tells him that everyone has departed. Tosca arrives with the safe conduct pass and tells him that she has killed Scarpia. He is overwhelmed by memories of an evening spent with her. Cavaradossi offers his jailer his ring as a bribe so that he can write a final farewell to Tosca. It is just before dawn church bells are ringing and a shepherd boy is passing with his flock. Scarpia seems to instruct Spoletta to arrange a mock execution, after which the lovers will be free. She pleads for mercy and finally promises to give herself to Scarpia in exchange for Cavaradossi’s freedom. Sciarrone, a police officer, rushes in with the news that it is the enemy who triumphed at Marengo. Scarpia orders Spoletta to go to the well in the garden, and Cavaradossi curses Tosca for the betrayal. Tosca assures him that she has given nothing away. Scarpia stops the torture and Cavaradossi is brought in. Tosca cannot bear his cries of pain and tells Scarpia where Angelotti is hiding. Scarpia questions Cavaradossi but extracts no information and he is taken off to be tortured. He was unable to find Angelotti but has arrested Cavaradossi. Scarpia sends Tosca a note demanding she visit him. To the accompaniment of the glorious Te Deum, Scarpia anticipates the execution of Cavaradossi and his possession of Tosca. When Tosca leaves, Scarpia sends Spoletta after her, assuming she will lead him to Cavaradossi and Angelotti. Tosca returns and Scarpia inflames her jealousy by showing her the fan – suggesting that Cavaradossi is having an affair with Marchesa Attavanti. Scarpia suspects that Cavaradossi has assisted Angelotti to escape. They find the food basket and a fan with the Attavanti coat of arms.

Scarpia, the brutal Chief of Police, and his agent Spoletta, have tracked Angelotti to the church. To celebrate the victory a Te Deum will be sung and, at the Palazzo Farnese, Floria Tosca will perform. The Sacristan returns with the news – later to be proved false – that the enemy has been defeated at Marengo. Cavaradossi suggests he hide in a disused well in the garden of his villa. There is a cannon shot announcing Angelotti’s escape has been discovered. She looks at the portrait and is incensed that it bears a likeness to the Marchesa Attavanti.

Tosca thinks Cavaradossi has been talking to a secret lover and begs him to take her to his villa. Cavaradossi is of the same political persuasion and promises to help him when it gets dark. He admits that the portrait he is painting of Mary Magdalene is inspired both by his lover, the singer Floria Tosca, and the Marchesa Attavanti. The Angelus sounds as Cavaradossi arrives. The Sacristan arrives and sees that the painter Cavaradossi is not at work and his food is untouched. He plans to hide in the Attavanti chapel and his sister, the Marchesa Attavanti, has left the key at the foot of the Madonna and some clothes as a disguise. Act 1 The church of Sant’Andrea della ValleĪngelotti, a political captive, has escaped from the prison at Castel Sant’Angelo.

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