Giacomo Puccini
Tosca
Saturday, October 10, 2009 (1 PM ET / 10 AM PT)
Expected Running time: 3 hours, 35 minutes. 2 intermissions
The Ultimate Stage Spectacle - The Met: Live in HD on movie theatre screens nationally. The broadcast of Puccini’s opera Tosca will be presented live for only one day on Saturday, October 10, 2009, 1 PM ET / 10 AM PT in select movie theatres.
“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 last 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.
An encore presentation of this performance will be exhibited in select movie theatres on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 6:30 PM in all time zones.
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Casting subject to change.
Running time is approximate.
