tosca
June 26 & 28, 2025 | 7:30 pm
Music Hall • springer auditorium
Music by Giacomo Puccini
Libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa
Sung in Italian with projected English translations
for love and faith.
Floria Tosca suspects her lover of being unfaithful, when really, he’s helping an escaped political prisoner and friend. This misunderstanding mutates into a series of escalating and irreversible misfortunes once Baron Scarpia, the chief of the secret police, enters the scene. Set in Rome during a time of national upheaval, as Napoleon’s army marches on Italy, Puccini’s epic opera stands as one of the most enduring and beloved of all time. Whatever darkness or desires the Baron may bring, there is nothing Tosca will not do for art and love.
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PRODUCTION PHOTOS
Photos by Philip Groshong
Cast & Creative Team
Floria Tosca – Karah Son
Mario Cavaradossi – Matthew White
Baron Scarpia – Anthony Clark Evans
Conductor – Clelia Cafiero
Stage Director – Jose Maria Condemi
Scenic & Costume Designer – Robert Perdziola
Lighting Designer – Thomas C. Hase
Hair & Makeup Designer – James Geier
Chorus Master – Henri Venanzi
Featuring the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and the Cincinnati Opera Chorus
DISCOVER MORE
Opera Insights
Enhance your appreciation of Tosca with a pre-curtain talk one hour before each performance in Music Hall's Corbett Tower. Evans Mirageas, The Harry T. Wilks Artistic Director, provides a 30-minute overview and insights into the opera's history, music, and production. Free to all ticket holders. No reservations required.
Meet the Composer
Giacomo Puccini
Giacomo Puccini was an Italian opera composer who started the operatic trend toward realism with popular works such as La Bohème and Madame Butterfly. He has been called “the greatest composer of Italian opera after Verdi.”
"Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements."
Original illustration of “Tosca”: Aimee Sposito Martini