MUSIC BY GIACOMO PUCCINI | LIBRETTO BY GIUSEPPE GIACOSA AND LUIGI ILLICA Based on Victorien Sardou’s play La Tosca (1887) World premiere at Teatro Costanzi, Rome, January 14, 1900
MARCH 12, 13, 17, 18, 19, 20, 24, AND 26, 2016 | ORDWAY MUSIC THEATER Sung in Italian with English translations projected above the stage
Cast
in order of vocal appearance
CESARE ANGELOTTI Andrew Lovato A SACRISTAN Benjamin Sieverding MARIO CAVARADOSSI A PAINTER Leonardo Capalbo* Dominick Chenes** FLORIA TOSCA A CELEBRATED OPERA SINGER Csilla Boross* Alexandra LoBianco** BARON SCARPIA CHIEF OF POLICE Stephen Powell* Mark Walters**
SPOLETTA A POLICE AGENT David Walton SCIARRONE A GENDARME Rodolfo Nieto A SHEPHERD BOY Tori Adams▸ Clare Tichawa▸▸ A JAILER Joel Mathias Clergymen, choristers, choirboys, a judge, a scribe, an executioner, soldiers, police agents, noblemen and women, townspeople
Creative Team CONDUCTOR Anne Manson*
ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR Jonathan Brandani**
STAGE DIRECTOR Andrea Cigni
CHORUSMASTER Robert Ainsley
SET AND COSTUME DESIGN Lorenzo Cutùli
FIGHT CHOREOGRAPHER Doug Scholz-Carlson
LIGHTING DESIGN Fiammetta Baldiserri
RÉPÉTITEURS Jessica Hall Lindsay Woodward
WIG AND MAKEUP DESIGN David Zimmerman ASSISTANT DIRECTOR David Radamés Toro
PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER Kerry Masek ENGLISH CAPTIONS ▴ conducts April 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 21 • conducts April 20, 22 Dale Johnson
* performs March 12, 17, 19, 24, 26 ** performs March 13, 18, 20 ▸ performs March 13, 17, 19, 26 ▸▸ performs March 12, 18, 20, 24
ESTIMATED RUNNING TIME Running time is approximately 2 hours and 42 minutes, including 2 intermissions. The intermissions will occur approximately 46 and 110 minutes into the opera, respectively.
This production contains theatrical haze and simulated gunshots. The appearances of Benjamin Sieverding and David Walton, regional finalists; and Andrew Lovato, district finalist of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, are made possible through a Minnesota Opera Endowment Fund established for Artist Enhancement by Barbara White Bemis. The appearances of the Resident Artists are made possible, in part, by the Virginia L. Stringer Endowment Fund for the Minnesota Opera Resident Artist Program. The Education and Outreach Program is funded, in part, by the William Randolph Hearst Foundation through gifts made to the William Randolph Hearst Endowment for Education. The scenic and costume designs for this production are made possible with the support of the Dolly Fiterman Fund for Opera Design.
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This production has been made possible in part by the generous support of Production Sponsors Leni and David Moore.
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