Conducting The Royal Opera's Tosca

Oksana Lyniv discusses the role of the conductor and the musical elements for The Royal Opera's Tosca.

Puccini’s great opera of passion and politics will be relayed in cinemas across the world on 15 December, with Encore screenings on 19 January 2022. Find your nearest screening: https://www.roh.org.uk/cinemas/produc...

Puccini's Tosca is one of the best loved operas in the repertory. From the demonic chords with which it famously begins to the violent twist of its shock ending, the tension never lets up for a moment.

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. Jonathan Kent’s taut and intense production with Paul Brown’s historically charged designs wonderfully evokes the dangerous atmosphere of Rome in 1800, where love and evil come – thrillingly – face to face.

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