Event

Puccini's TOSCA

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Following their success in 2015 with Verdi's Otello, Everybody Can! Opera is thrilled to be returning to St James's Church, Piccadilly with one of Puccini's most loved operas, Tosca.

Passion, love, lust, sexual abuse, violence, suicide and murder are all ingredients of this great work, accompanied by dramatic and beautiful music, including the show-stopping aria 'Vissi d'arte'.

Soprano Nadine Benjamin, an ENO Harewood Artist, will sing the title role, with tenor Borja Goméz-Ferrer as her lover, the artist Cavaradossi. Baritone David Durham performs the role of the malevolent chief-of-police Baron Scarpia.

William Conway will conduct a specially-arranged orchestration in this semi-staging by director Rebecca Louise Dale, who swaps 18th-century Rome for present day London.

Sung in Italian with surtitles in English.

Music Director William Conway
Director Rebecca Louise Dale
Chorus Director Elizabeth Franklin-Kitchen
Chorus Co-Ordinator Danae Eleni
Music Staff Elspeth Wilkes, Andrew Robinson, Richard Black
Costume Sylvia Spyratou
Stage Management Kathryn Frady

Floria Tosca Nadine Benjamin
Mario Cavaradossi Borja Gómez-Ferrer
Baron Scarpia David Durham
Cesare Angelotti Nico Laruina
Sacristan Simon Butteriss
Spoletta Jonathan Cooke
Sciarrone Nicholas George
Shepherd Girl Danae Eleni
Jailer Douglas Lee

Chorus
Emma Barton, Graham Barton, Harriet Barton, Ed Bonner, Rachael Cawte, Philip Clieve, Lisa Coates, Deborah Holborn, Darja Laris, Alex Learmonth, Douglas Lee, Katherine Liggins,
Roger Mortimer, Jeremy Nicholson, Alexander Pidgen, Benjie del Rosario, Elizabeth Sillo, Jacqueline Yu

Orchestra
Gaby Lester (leader), Sarah Bevan-Baker, Kay Stephen, Sally-Jane Pendlebury, Jack Maran Hewetson, Chloe Vincent, Ruth Contractor, Michael Whight, Christopher Gunia, Jonathan Farey, Anna Drysdale, Brendan Musk, Richard Allen, Jude Carlton