Tosca
Cast sheet
Thursday 11 September 2025
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7pm
Exceptional philanthropic support from Royal Ballet and Opera Principal Julia Rausing Trust
Generous philanthropic support from Philipp Freise, Charles Holloway OBE, John McGinn and Cary Davis, Simon and Virginia Robertson, The Thompson Family Charitable Trust, Royal Ballet And Opera Patrons and The American Friends of Covent Garden
Generously supported by Rolex, Principal Partner, The Royal Opera
Approximate timings
Music
Giacomo Puccini
Libretto
after Victorien Sardou's play La Tosca
Giuseppe Giacosa
Conductor
Jakub Hrůša
Director
Oliver Mears
Set designer
Simon Lima Holdsworth
Costume designer
Ilona Karas
Lighting Designer
Fabiana Piccioli
Movement and Intimacy Director
Anna Morrissey
Floria Tosca
Anna Netrebko
Mario Cavaradossi
Freddie De Tommaso
Baron Scarpia
Gerald Finley
Spoletta
Carlo Bosi
Cesare Angelotti
Ossian Huskinson
Sacristan
Alessandro Corbelli
Sciarrone
Siphe Kwani
Gaoler
Olle Zetterström
Young Shepherd
Raphy Laming
Actors
David Galea, Suleiman Suleiman, James Unsworth, Charlie Venables, Addis Williams
Chorus
Royal Opera Chorus
Chorus Director
William Spaulding
Orchestra
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Principal Guest Concert Master
by arrangement with Trittico
Vasko Vassilev
Children’s Chorus
Cardinal Vaughan School, Grey Coat Hospital School
Music Director
Cardinal Vaughan School
Scott Price
Music Director
Grey Coat Hospital School
Steve Hill
Sopranos
Stephanie Corley, Janet Fairlie, Celeste Gattai, Rebecca Goulden, Vanessa Woodfine
Mezzo-sopranos
Maria Brown, Siobhain Gibson, Clare McCaldin, Jennifer Westwood
Tenors
Richard Monk, Robert Amon, Simon Biazeck
Basses
Oscar Castellino, Oliver Gibbs, Gavin Horsley, Simon Preece
Music preparation
Nick Fletcher, Richard Fu, Peggy Wu, Aleksandra Myslek, Nicholas Ansdell-Evans
Assistant Directors
Simon Iorio, Isabelle Kettle
Language Coach
Barbara Diana
Fight Director
Bret Yount
Sound Effects
Emma Laxton
Patron
HM The King
Music Director
Jakub Hrůša
Director of Opera
Oliver Mears
Director of Casting
Peter Mario Katona
Associate Director
Netia Jones
Administrative Director
Cormac Simms
Synopsis
Cesare Angelotti, a politician of the former Roman Republic, has escaped prison and seeks refuge in a church. The p...
Cesare Angelotti, a politician of the former Roman Republic, has escaped prison and seeks refuge in a church. The painter Mario Cavaradossi, a Republican sympathizer working in the church, promises to help him. Angelotti hides as Cavaradossi’s lover Floria Tosca arrives. The lovers’ meeting reveals Tosca’s passionate love and jealousy. When Tosca has gone, Cavaradossi instructs Angelotti to hide at Cavaradossi’s villa. Baron Scarpia, a police commander, arrives at the church, interrupting the congregation’s celebrations of a victory at the Battle of Marengo. He suspects Cavaradossi of hiding Angelotti. When Tosca returns, Scarpia uses a fan left by Angelotti to make her believe that Cavaradossi is having an affair. The congregation sings a prayer: the Te Deum. Tosca leaves for Cavaradossi’s villa, and Scarpia instructs his assistant Spoletta to follow her and track down Angelotti.
Act II
Scarpia has arrested Cavaradossi. He summons Tosca and forces her to listen as Cavaradossi is tortured in the next room. Tosca reveals Angelotti’s hiding place. Scarpia condemns Cavaradossi to death but tells Tosca that he will free her lover if she will offer herself to him. In agony, Tosca agrees and Scarpia tells her he will arrange a mock execution. As Scarpia embraces Tosca, she kills him.
Act III
As dawn approaches, Cavaradossi waits for his execution in the Castel Sant’Angelo. Tosca arrives and tells him what she has done. She instructs him on how to pretend to die in the mock execution. When Cavaradossi is shot, Tosca is impressed with her lover’s acting. But Scarpia has double-crossed her: Cavaradossi really is dead. As Spoletta’s men arrive to arrest her for Scarpia’s murder, she kills herself.
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