Oxford Opera Firm’s TOSCA on the OXFORD PLAYHOUSE
Friday 28 & Saturday 29 March 2025
Oxford Playhouse is happy to announce a brand-new manufacturing of Puccini’s iconic opera Tosca, offered by Oxford Opera Firm.
Following the success of their 2022 manufacturing of The Magic Flute, the corporate will return to The Playhouse stage on Friday 28 and Saturday 29 March with a recent tackle Puccini’s basic opera. The brand-new manufacturing can be sung in English and can function a brand new translation commissioned completely for the corporate.
‘Playhouse delights in Oxford Opera’s pitch-perfect manufacturing of Puccini’s La bohème’
Oxford Mail, 2020
A nation-state struggling beneath the grip of a corrupt navy junta. Ardour, corruption, betrayal, justice and redemption all come collectively as Tosca and Cavaradossi combat for love and freedom beneath the shadow of the oppressor Scarpia.
The corporate’s manufacturing will star Marlene Devoe, Sam Furness, and Philip Rhodes.
Marlene Devoe makes her debut as the enduring diva, Floria Tosca. A New Zealand-born, Samoan soprano, she returns to Oxford Opera following her stellar performances as Mimì in La bohème (2020) and Pamina in The Magic Flute (2022).
Sam Furness additionally returns to the Oxford stage, enjoying Cavaradossi. He final delighted audiences along with his distinctive efficiency as Rodolfo in La bohème (2020). Rhodes makes his debut with the corporate, in a job that’s quick changing into certainly one of his signatures. Direct from the Royal Opera Home manufacturing of Fidelio, he’ll convey his astonishing charisma and stage presence to certainly one of opera’s best dangerous boys, Scarpia.
Throughout each performances, Tosca will function 60 younger folks from Oxford Opera’s Youth Firm and college students from over ten colleges in Oxfordshire. The Oxford Opera Orchestra can be carried out by Director of Music John Warner. Collectively, they may convey Puccini’s masterpiece to life, in a manufacturing directed by Katie Blackwell. The brand new translation has been organized by Christopher Cowell.
Tosca is taken into account one of many best operas ever written. With timeless themes of energy, love, corruption and redemption, the piece resonates throughout the generations and is extra pertinent at present than ever.
Tickets for Oxford Opera Firm’s Tosca at Oxford Playhouse begin from £14 and can be found from Field Workplace: 01865 305305 or to e book on-line click on right here.
