24th January
Concert will begin at 00:25 hours GMT
Puccini's 'Tosca' with Radvanovsky, Jagde, Terfel & Carfizzi from New York
Puccini's 'Tosca' is an opera in three acts to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. The work, based on Victorien Sardou's 1887 French-language dramatic play, La Tosca, is a melodramatic piece set in Rome in June 1800, with the Kingdom of Naples's control of Rome threatened by Napoleon's invasion of Italy.
Performers: Tosca: Sondra Radvanovsky. Cavaradossi: Brian Jagde. Scarpia: Bryan Terfel. Sacristan: Patrick Carfizzi.
Metropolitan Opera Choir and Orchestra. Conductor: Zhang.
Live.
Metropolitan Opera House