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Tosca
Opens: 24/03/2010 Closes: 23/04/2010
UK tour
Tosca ranks consistently among the most loved operas, and this production should fortify that status. Set in a politically corrupt 19th-century Rome, Floria Tosca battles her suspicions over loverboy Marios's fidelity. This leads her to discover that he is involved in something significantly more dangerous - and so is she, it turns out.
For more information visit:
http://www.wno.org.uk/tosca
Buy:
http://www.wno.org.uk/3293
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Opera Britannia“A masterly interpretation of the score, drama and characterisation...” This impressive Tosca succeeds on many levels, and it will be a difficult production to replace when the day comes to embrace a new approach. It is a marvellous combination of accuracy and respect to the score...
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The Independent“A rather successful and stylish production...” Peter Sidhom is an outstanding Scarpia: sinister in his elegance and mellifluousness as much as in his Grand Guignol diabolism. Carlo Rizzi conducts, with his usual strong feeling for line. A good evening, against the odds...
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Guardian“Despite everything, the opera itself should remain indestructible...” Koenigs seemed to be approaching the piece as though it were a work of German expressionism, but verismo even at its most forceful should never lose its essential Italian lyricism and flow...
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