Tosca – Puccini

A story of love, lust, blackmail, revenge  and murder. Set in Rome at a time of political unrest throughout Europe. 

Date : Wednesday,  October 1st 2025

Location: IMF Cinema, Ondara

(live streamed from Royal Opera House, Covent Garden)

Cast in this production

Floria Tosca – Anna Netrebko

Mario Cavaradossi – Freddie de Tommaso

Barón Scarpia – tba

Characters

• Floria Tosca – an opera singer (sung by a soprano)
• Mario Cavaradossi – a painter and Tosca’s lover (sung by a tenor)
• Barone Scarpia – Rome’s Chief of Police (sung by a baritone)
• Sacristan – the caretaker of the church in which Tosca and Cavaradossi meet (sung by a baritone)
• Cesare Angelotti – an escaped prisoner and Cavaradossi’s friend (sung by a baritone)

Brief synopsis

Rome in 1800 is in political chaos. Cesare Angelotti, a former consul of the short-lived Roman Republic, has escaped imprisonment, and seeks refuge in the church of Sant’Andrea della Valle. The painter and republican sympathizer Mario Cavaradossi promises to hide him at his country villa. Baron Scarpia, Rome’s tyrannical Chief of Police, suspects that Cavaradossi has helped Angelotti to escape. He persuades the painter’s lover, opera singer Floria Tosca, whom he himself desires, that Cavaradossi has betrayed her. She leaves to confront Cavaradossi at his villa and Scarpia orders his men to follow her, in the hope they’ll find Angelotti. Scarpia arrests Cavaradossi, and tortures him in Tosca’s presence until she reveals Angelotti’s hiding place. Scarpia subsequently condemns Cavaradossi to death. Alone with Tosca, Scarpia tells her that he will save Cavaradossi – but only if Tosca spends the night with him. Will Tosca yield to the man she hates to save the man she loves?

Famous Music in Tosca? 

One of Maria Callas most famous recordings the aria ‘Vissi d’arte’ (‘I have lived for art’) from Puccini’s Tosca is a spellbinding moment in operatic history. It comes mid-way through Act II. Tosca, a famous singer, has been summoned to the apartment of Baron Scarpia, the chief of police, where her lover, the republican Cavaradossi, is being held prisoner. Scarpia tells Tosca that Cavaradossi’s life will be spared if she sleeps with him. At which point, Tosca, alone in her desperation, begins to sing her despairing prayer. 

Running time: 3 hours including 2 intervals

For a more detailed synopsis I would suggest:

www.metopera.org/synopsistosca

www.operanorth.co.uk – Tosca in a Nutshell

Cost

Price per person 23€

Included: Return transport from Javea and entrance ticket to the cinema. 

Agenda

18:15 – Pick up, Interiors, Javea Port

18:30 – Pick up, MasyMas N332

19:00  – Arrive Ondara

Return – Pick up  11:30

Arrive – 00:15, Interiors, Javea Port

Estrella Travel will drop us off outside the main entrance to the Shopping centre and pick-up at the same spot at 11:30.

It is a late finish so please make your way as quickly as possible through the shopping centre to the main entrance for the bus.

The tickets are numbered.  I have the tickets and will distribute them once we’re all on the bus. 

For those who don’t know the cinema in the shopping centre it is located on the 2nd floor, opposite McDonalds, with an escalator up to the box office. 

The performance is scheduled to start at 8:15

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