Tosca - Manitoba Opera

She lived for art and died for love.

The Synopsis

In Napoleonic Rome of 1800, Floria Tosca, a celebrated opera singer, seduces all with her voice, but loves only one man, Mario Cavaradossi, a painter. This fills the sinister Baron Scarpia, the Chief of Police, with jealousy.

Cavaradossi is hiding a political fugitive and Tosca is drawn into a web of danger and deceit by Scarpia, who abuses his power to force the passionate singer to betray her lover’s secret. When Cavaradossi is imprisoned and faces death, Tosca will stop at nothing to save him. She has her revenge on Scarpia, but realizes too late that she has been double-crossed.

Sung in Italian with projected English translations.

Music by Giacomo Puccini
Libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa
Directed by Valerie Kuinka
Conducted by Tyrone Paterson

Based on Victorien Sardou’s drama, “La Tosca”

Running Time: 2 hours 40 minutes

Our Land Acknowledgement:

Manitoba Opera is located upon, and operates within, Treaty #1 territory, the Anishinaabeg, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota, and Dene peoples’ traditional lands and waters and the Red River Métis Nation homelands.

As water nourishes the land and all it gives us, we also acknowledge that the source of the City of Winnipeg’s water is from Shoal Lake, the home and shared territory of Iskatewizaagegan No. 39 Independent Nation and Shoal Lake 40 First Nation.

In view of such understandings and acknowledgments, Manitoba Opera remains committed to working in partnership with the Indigenous peoples in the spirit of truth, reconciliation, and collaboration.

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