Composer Giacomo Puccini
Libretto Giusepe Giacosa and Luigi Illica
Director Jonathan Kent
Music The Royal Opera Chorus with the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Designer Paul Brown
   
Floria Tosca Elena Stikina
Mario Cavaradossi Bryan Hymel
Baron Scarpia Alexey Markov
   
  Sung in Italian with English subtitles

Into the romantic world of an idealistic painter Cavaradossi and his sensuous lover Tosca comes the malevolence of Baron Scarpia, Chief of Police, with fatal results. Elena Stikina, Bryan Hymel and Alexey Markov bring to life one of the best loved operas in The Royal Opera repertory: Puccini’s Tosca. From the demonic chords with which it famously begins to the violent twist of the opera’s shock ending, the tension never lets up for a moment. Love and evil come – thrillingly – face to face in Jonathan Kent’s intense production.