FRIDAY 5:00PM & 8:00PM
SATURDAY 5:00PM & 8:00PM
Opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini | Libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. Based on the drama La Tosca by Victorien Sardou Sung in Italian with English subtitles.
Performed at San Francisco Opera in 2009
Running time: 2 hours, no intermission
Descend into a portrait of Rome on the brink of war. A police state reigns over the city, and at its head is the merciless Baron Scarpia. Amid the tumult, love blossoms between two artists: the singer Floria Tosca and the painter Mario Cavaradossi. But Tosca has caught Scarpia’s eye. To claim the singer for himself, Scarpia concocts a plan to send her lover to the firing squad — and Tosca’s only hope to save him is to do the unspeakable.