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Programme presenting rare and fascinating operatic performances

Programme presenting rare and fascinating performances and vividly communicating the immediacy of the live experience

Opera on 3: Tosca from the Met

Tosca from the Met

BBC Radio 3 - Opera on 3, Tosca from the Met

Tosca,  from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York.

Tosca, from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, with Jennifer Rowley and Joseph Calleja, conducted by Carlo Rizzi.

Tonight's opera from the Met is Puccini's verismo opera Tosca, which tells the tale of the love between Tosca and Cavaradossi pitted against the plotting of the evil chief of police, Baron Scarpia. A top cast includes Jennifer Rowley as Tosca and Joseph Calleja as her doomed lover Cavaradossi. Carlo Rizzi conducts.

Presented by Mary Jo Heath, in conversation with Ira Siff.

Tosca......Jennifer Rowley (Soprano) 
Cavaradossi.....Joseph Calleja (Tenor) 
Scarpia.....Wolfgang Koch (Baritone) 
Sacristan.....Philip Cokorinos (Tenor) 
Spoletta.....Tony Stevenson (Tenor) 
Sciarrone.....Bradley Garvin (Bass) 
Cesare Angelotti.....Oren Gradus (Bass) 
Jailer.....Paul Corona (Bass) 
Shepherd Boy.....Davida Dayle (Soprano) 
New York Metropolitan Opera Chorus 
New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra 
Carlo Rizzi (Conductor)

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