Boston Lyric Opera

Tosca
November 5, 7m, 10, 12, 14m, 16, 2010
At the Citi Performing Arts Center^SM Shubert Theatre

Opera Previews before each performance -- free for ticket holders!
Related events: Sept. 26, Signature Series at the MFA; Oct. 19, FREE Opera Night at the BPL; Nov. 6, FREE Open House at the Shubert

Music by Giacomo Puccini | Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica, after Victorien Sardou’s 1887 play, La Tosca
Sung in Italian with projected English translation
A Boston Lyric Opera adaptation of a Scottish Opera production

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Conductor		ANDREW BISANTZ
Stage Director		DAVID LEFKOWICH
Original Production		ANTHONY BESCH
Set and Costume Designer		PETER RICE
Lighting Designer		PAUL HACKENMUELLER

Floria Tosca		JILL GARDNER
Mario Cavaradossi		DIEGO TORRE*
Baron Scarpia		BRADLEY GARVIN*
Angelotti		ANTON BELOV
A Sacristan		T. STEVEN SMITH*
Spoletta		NEAL FERREIRA

Boston Lyric Opera Orchestra and Chorus

*BLO debut

Tosca

“Are you aware of what dark work is done?”

One minute, Cavaradossi is musing on his latest painting—and the diva Tosca, his beautiful, jealous lover. The next, he’s in prison with someone’s jackboot on his neck. Tosca’s options? Betrayal or rape. There are no good choices. Puccini storms the darkest of subjects with music passionate and lyrical.