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Tosca, English Touring Opera, Hackney Empire

04 Mar 17 – 09 Mar 17, 7:30 PM – 10:15 PM

A loyal friend, a suspicious lover and a tyrant are an incompatible trio in Tosca. But who will go first...?

By Claudia Pritchard on 15/10/2016

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Floria Tosca seeks revenge in Puccini's great opera Tosca
Floria Tosca seeks revenge in Puccini's great opera Tosca
Tosca, English Touring Opera, Hackney Empire Tosca, English Touring Opera, Hackney Empire Claudia Pritchard
The success of English Touring Opera’s autumn tour to Hackney Empire makes the company’s spring dates a must for the diary.


Puccini’s Tosca is one of the two operas being staged in ETO’s spring tour, and while the work with its Roman backdrop is often produced in the grandest of settings, its three acts involve only a handful of characters in small spaces which have the potential to be both safe and fearful.


The production will call on ETO’s strengths: fluid acting, communicative singing, and designs that conjure striking effects out of apparently simple elements.


Directing is the highly respected Blanche McIntyre, whose recent successes have included As You Like It (2015) and The Comedy of Errors (2014) at Shakespeare’s Globe.


Tosca is set in Rome in June 1800, a dangerous time and place: the city is unstable as Napolean drives through Europe, and spies and enemies are everywhere. Against this perilous background, artists – here, Cavaradossi – and singers – here, Floria Tosca – try to stay true to their calling and their beliefs while their place in the public eye puts them at risk.


When the chief of police, Scarpia, takes a fancy to Tosca and suspects her lover Cavaradossi of harbouring a rebel, glamorous surroundings conceal terrible acts and outcomes.


Packed with soaring tunes and underpinned by terrific orchestral effects, musically it is one of the most powerful operas in the repertoire.


Tosca is sung in Italian, with English surtitles, Michael Rosewell conducts.

by Claudia Pritchard

What Tosca, English Touring Opera, Hackney Empire
Where Hackney Empire, 291 Mare Street, London, E8 1EJ | MAP
Nearest tube Hackney Central (overground)
When 04 Mar 17 – 09 Mar 17, 7:30 PM – 10:15 PM
Price £10 - £35
Website Click here for more information and booking



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