Saturday, November 22 at 7:30 pm
Wednesday, November 26 at 7:00 pm
Friday, November 28 at 7:30 pm
Approximate Run Time: 2 hours & 45 minutes (including two 20-minute intermissions)

Supremely Operatic!

Heart-pounding drama, intense passion, and soaring melodies are a killer combination in this fateful day in the life of the diva Tosca.

In revolutionary Rome, the fiery, famous singer lives for art and love but finds herself in a life-and-death struggle when her lover, the painter Cavaradossi, is caught trying to protect a freedom fighter. Scarpia, the corrupt chief of police will stop at nothing to satisfy his lust for her. In this game of deadly political intrigue will Tosca submit to Scarpia’s desires or see her lover die? Can Scarpia’s evil reach from beyond the grave?

This spell-binding classic features some of Puccini’s best: “Vissi d’arte,” the opera’s most famous aria in which Tosca sings that she’s always lived her life for art and love; Cavaradossi’s “Recondita armonia”; Scarpia’s “Te Deum,” sung with self-satisfied villainy and madness; and “E lucevan le stelle,” Cavaradossi’s farewell to Tosca.

Sung in Italian with projected English translations.

MUSIC Giacomo Puccini
LIBRETTO Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa
(Based on Victorien Sardou’s drama La Tosca)

PRINCIPAL CAST:
TOSCA: Marina Costa-Jackson
CAVARADOSSI: David Pomeroy
SCARPIA: Gregory Dahl
SACRISTAN/JAILER: Peter McGillivray
SPOLETTA: Jamie McLennan
ANGELOTTI/SCIARRONE:David Watson
SHEPHERD BOY: Nathaniel Mercer

Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Manitoba Opera Chorus, Children’s Chorus, and Supers

Conductor: Tyrone Paterson
Director: Anna Theodosakis
Fight Director: Jacqueline Loewen
Set Design: Ercole Sormani
Costume design: Andrew Marley/Heidi Zamora
Lighting Design: Larry Isacoff
Firearms Safety Supervisor:Dave Brown
Stage Manager: Chris Porter
Asst Stage Manager: Kathryn Ball
Asst Stage Manager: Heather Lee Bea
Apprentice SM: Devon Helm
Production: Seattle Opera