Tosca tells of the passionate love of the eponymous singer for the artist Cavaradossi who, by trying to help his friend, the escaped prisoner Angelotti, sets in motion a series of tragic events.

Among the great dramatic sopranos of our time, Catherine Malfitano made an unforgettable English National Opera debut in 2006 as the tortured Kostelnicka in David Alden’s Laurence Olivier Award-winning production of Jenůfa. Famed as one of the foremost Toscas of recent decades, she now returns to direct Puccini’s ever popular opera with rising star Amanda Echalaz –  already heralded as “the leading Tosca of her generation” (The Independent) — making her ENO debut in the role that Ms  Malfitano once made her own.

With one Tosca on stage and another behind the scenes, a radical new design approach and the proven Puccinian passion of Edward Gardner, ENO’s Laurence Olivier Award-winning Music Director, in the pit, this new production promises to be a thrilling new take on Puccini’s most powerfully theatrical opera.

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