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Tosca may just be our favorite opera that we've seen.
First of all, I had to switch our tickets from May 8 to May 1--I did this about a month ago. Mom gave me the tickets and I went into the opera office. The people were really nice. We weren't able to get our same seats, but the seats we got were decent. It was a painless transaction!
And I'm so glad that I switched the tickets rather than just telling Mom to go with a friend. We really, really liked Tosca. The singing was amazing, and the characters were interesting and well performed. Adina Nitescu as Tosca was wonderful. We also really appreciated Boris Statsenko as Scarpia. He did a great job of being incredibly slimy.
The sets were amazing, as usual lately. The downside of the impressive sets is that they took a really long time to change. Intermissions were 25+ minutes long, and with two intermissions, the audience got restless. However, as soon as the curtain opened, everyone was awed into silence by the beautiful set.
I loved the final moment of the opera (which, no one should be surprised to know, was a dramatic death). Really beautiful and gutsy moment.
Best part: even though it started almost 15 minutes late, the whole opera was done by 5:35, enabling us to catch our trains home without leaving before the performance was over! We got to stay and applaud, and actually exited the theater after the house lights were up again. Yay!
(Synopsis for future reference at Wikipedia--this is the one where Tosca is a famous singer and her lover is Caravadossi the painter. Caravadossi tries to help escaped political prisoner Angelotti, but the evil police chief Scarpia plays on Tosca's jealousy to get her to reveal Angelotti's hiding place. Scarpia of course is a total lout, and everyone dies at the end, but Tosca has some guts.)
First of all, I had to switch our tickets from May 8 to May 1--I did this about a month ago. Mom gave me the tickets and I went into the opera office. The people were really nice. We weren't able to get our same seats, but the seats we got were decent. It was a painless transaction!
And I'm so glad that I switched the tickets rather than just telling Mom to go with a friend. We really, really liked Tosca. The singing was amazing, and the characters were interesting and well performed. Adina Nitescu as Tosca was wonderful. We also really appreciated Boris Statsenko as Scarpia. He did a great job of being incredibly slimy.
The sets were amazing, as usual lately. The downside of the impressive sets is that they took a really long time to change. Intermissions were 25+ minutes long, and with two intermissions, the audience got restless. However, as soon as the curtain opened, everyone was awed into silence by the beautiful set.
I loved the final moment of the opera (which, no one should be surprised to know, was a dramatic death). Really beautiful and gutsy moment.
Best part: even though it started almost 15 minutes late, the whole opera was done by 5:35, enabling us to catch our trains home without leaving before the performance was over! We got to stay and applaud, and actually exited the theater after the house lights were up again. Yay!
(Synopsis for future reference at Wikipedia--this is the one where Tosca is a famous singer and her lover is Caravadossi the painter. Caravadossi tries to help escaped political prisoner Angelotti, but the evil police chief Scarpia plays on Tosca's jealousy to get her to reveal Angelotti's hiding place. Scarpia of course is a total lout, and everyone dies at the end, but Tosca has some guts.)
