21 with “Tosca,” starring soprano Ailyn Pérez in the title role of Puccini’s melodrama. Tosca is performed in Italian with English subtitles and has an approximate running time of 2 hours, 2 minutes.San Francisco Opera is coming back big for the 2021-22 season, the company’s first return to live performance since COVID-19 brought music to a halt at the start of 2020.Ī season-opening “Tosca,” a bold new production of Beethoven’s “Fidelio,” and the continuation of the company’s multi-year Mozart-Da Ponte trilogy with new stagings of “Cosi fan tutte” and “Don Giovanni” are some of the highlights of the company’s 99th season, announced June 22 by general director Matthew Shilvock. Italian maestro Riccardo Frizza conducts Puccini’s 1900 musical drama known for its heartbreaking, lyrical arias “Vissi d’arte” and “E lucevan le stelle.” Gary Marder is the production’s lighting designer, and Chorus Director Ian Robertson prepares the San Francisco Opera Chorus and San Francisco Boys Chorus for the large-scale Te Deum scene that closes the opera’s first act.

Directed by Jose Maria Condemi, the cast includes bass Scott Conner (Angelotti), bass-baritone Dale Travis (the Sacristan), tenor Joel Sorensen (Spoletta), baritone Efraín Solís (Sciarrone) and baritone Hadleigh Adams (the Jailer). Baritone Mark Delavan takes on one of the most notorious villains in the operatic repertoire, Baron Scarpia.

The San Francisco Chronicle hails Armenian soprano Lianna Haroutounian “phenomenal” in her house and role debuts portraying the passionate diva who puts herself at risk for her lover, Cavaradossi, performed by tenor Brian Jagde. San Francisco Opera’s 2014 revival of Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca features the sumptuous production by Thierry Bosquet, based on the original designs by Armando Agnini for the Company’s first staging of the opera in the War Memorial Opera House in 1932. The presentations, filmed live in high-definition at the War Memorial Opera House, will be viewable on demand for free at on the first streaming date starting at 10 am (PDT) and expiring at 11:59 pm the following day.

San Francisco Opera continues streaming performances with Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca on October 10–11, Giuseppe Verdi’s Attila on October 17–18 and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) on October 24–25.

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