The Met: Live in HD
Tosca

“Tosca combines Puccini’s glorious musical inspiration with the melodramatic vitality of one of the great Hitchcock films,” says Met Music Director James Levine, who conducts this new production. The opera tells the story of three people—a famous opera singer, a free-thinking painter, and a sadistic chief of police—caught in a net of love and politics. Soprano Karita Mattila, recently seen in this season’s Live in HD presentation of Salome, sings the title role for the first time outside her native Finland. Luc Bondy, acclaimed for his imaginative theater and opera productions, directs. The cast also includes Marcelo Álvarez as Cavaradossi and Juha Uusitalo as Scarpia.

Composer Giacomo Puccini
Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica
Conductor James Levine
Production Luc Bondy*
Set Designer Richard Peduzzi*
Costume Designer Milena Canonero
Tosca Karita Mattila
Cavaradossi Marcelo Álvarez
Scarpia George Gagnidze
Sacristan Paul Plishka

A co-production of the Metropolitan Opera, Teatro alla Scala, Milan, and Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich
Production underwritten by The Annenberg Foundation

*Met debut

This event is sponsored by Red Wing/Package Pavement.
The promotional sponsor is WMHT.

Our 2009/10 Met Opera: Live in HD broadcasts are made possible in large part though the generous support of the Jane W. Nuhn Charitable Trust, the Louis Greenspan Charitable Trust, the Dr. Edwin Ulrich Charitable Trust, the Benjamin R. Strong Opera Fund, and the Stephen and Julia Dunwell Fund of the Community Foundation of Dutchess County.