The Royal Opera - Tosca Reviews
29 March 2024
Roberto Alagna (Cavaradossi)
Marco Vratogna (Scarpia), Oksana Dyka (Tosca)
Marco Vratogna (Scarpia), Oksana Dyka (Tosca)
Roberto Alagna (Cavaradossi), Oksana Dyka (Tosca)
Oksana Dyka (Tosca)

Performance reviews

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Tosca

The Royal Opera


No. of reviews: 14

Domingo fails to lift tired Tosca
27 Jun 14 / Mundo Clásico (English)
The vocal firepower of Bryn Terfel and Sondra Radvanovsky boosts a fine revival of Tosca
19 Jun 14 / Telegraph
Bryn Terfel has 'enormous' stage presence in Placido Domingo's Tosca
18 Jun 14 / Express
Harmony of colour and song in Domingo’s Tosca
18 Jun 14 / Seen and Heard
La bella Tosca
12 Jun 14 / L'Ape musicale
A Tosca which falls flat?
19 May 14 / Bachtrack
Roberto Alagna shines in Puccini's great work
17 May 14 / Express
This Tosca has a mighty punch
17 May 14 / Music OMH
Little to get excited about
16 May 14 / The Spectator
As Cavaradossi, Roberto Alagna was on great form
15 May 14 / Classical Source
Oksana Dyka's Tosca is more dumpy washerwoman than diva
13 May 14 / Independent
A cast with the decibels and guts to deliver raw melodrama
13 May 14 / Financial Times
Jonathan Kent's vivid staging of Puccini's verismo classic returns to Covent Garden yet again
13 May 14 / What's on Stage
Disappointing Tosca revival at Covent Garden
12 May 14 / Seen and Heard
Placido Domingo conducts the Royal Opera House's Tosca
He is arguably one of opera's greatest living singers, but Placido Domingo is making retirement plans.
Oleg Caetani interview
The conductor is about to make a belated Covent Garden debut with Puccini’s ‘Tosca’.
The Royal Opera fields super-subs for Scarpia
The second cast of this year's Tosca gains a couple of starry villains - Bryn Terfel and Lucio Gallo - after Sebastian Catana pulls out.
Production details
Cast
Dyka/Radvanovsky, Alagna/Massi, Vratogna/Terfel/Gallo, de Souza, Hill/Francis, White/Bracci, Kim/Wilding
(c) Caetani/Domingo (d) Kent
Performance dates
10, 13, 16, 19, 22, 27, 30 May, 3, 16, 19, 21, 26 June 2014
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