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Vancouver Opera: Tosca
Vancouver Opera presents Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca, sung in Italian with English SURTITLES™ projected above the stage.
- Date and time
- Location
- Queen Elizabeth Theatre · 630 Hamilton St · Vancouver · V6B 5N6
- Organizer
- Vancouver Opera
About this event
Vancouver Opera presents Puccini’s Tosca on October 24 at 7:30 p.m. Set in early-19th-century Rome, the opera follows singer Floria Tosca, revolutionary painter Mario Cavaradossi and police chief Baron Scarpia through a struggle involving love, power and betrayal.
The co-production with Pacific Opera Victoria is conducted by Jacques Lacombe and directed by Brenna Corner, with Joyce El-Khoury as Tosca, David Pomeroy as Cavaradossi and Gregory Dahl as Scarpia. It is sung in Italian with English projected titles and runs approximately 2 hours 20 minutes, including one 25-minute intermission. Contact the VO Ticket Centre at 604 683 0222 for wheelchair and companion seating.
Libretto: Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa; first performed in Rome in 1900. Associate director: Amanda Testini. Other cast: Neil Craighead (Cesare Angelotti), Peter Monaghan (Sacristan), Callum Alden (Spoletta), Mihnea Nitu (Sciarrone), Willy Myles-Grenzberg (Jailer). Address: Queen Elizabeth Theatre, 630 Hamilton Street, Vancouver. The approximate running time is not an exact finish time.