Beautiful, passionate and brave, Puccini?s Tosca is the ultimate role for a soprano. American diva Deborah Voigt takes on the part in The Royal Opera?s stunning 2006 production with Italian sensation Marcello Giordani as her lover Cavaradossi, and Bryn Terfel as her nemesis, the corrupt police chief Baron Scarpia.

The Royal Opera Season ends in spectacular fashion with this revival, conducted by Jacques Lacombe. When they were first seen in 2006, Paul Brown?s sets were deemed to have struck the perfect balance between a realistic depiction of Rome in 1800 and an evocation of the dark and disturbing atmosphere that haunts Puccini?s score.This follows the constant surprises and reverses of the plot with unerring precision.The opera itself succeeds through Puccini?s ability to blend passages of heightened lyricism into a texture that squeezes the last drop of angst from a tense and sometimes terrifying dramatic scheme. On this occasion American soprano Deborah Voigt personifies the great Roman diva Floria Tosca, caught up in a game of cat-and-mouse with the sinister police chief, Scarpia. As in 2006, Bryn Terfel will bring vocal brilliance and physical menace to the character of Scarpia, with Italian tenor Marcello Giordani taking the role of the painter Cavaradossi,Tosca?s lover and another of Scarpia?s victims.