Set over a 24 hour period in Rome in the 1800s, during the time of huge political unrest wiht the Napoleonic wars. Corrupt Chief of Police, Scarpia has tempestuous opera singer Floria Tosca in his ...
With its screams, sex, bells and bloodshed Puccini’s opera was initially derided as a noisy disaster. Ahead of Glyndebourne’s first ever production, we look the ‘shabby little shocker’ that’s become ...