From what we can tell, they should all be gone by June 20-25.”īefore deciding on Summit Park, the opera considered several large spaces in Greater Cincinnati, including the Cincinnati Zoo and Stargel Stadium at Taft High School. I guarantee that you’ll be able to hum all your favorite tunes.

So while we may tell our stories through a different lens, the stories will be there. But Mirageas urges the naysayers to have patience. For some purists, that might be a deal-breaker. And though there will be the usual complement of costumes and stage lighting, there will be none of the lavish stage sets that are a hallmark of large operas. Having no intermission means that people have fewer opportunities to encroach on others’ spaces. In order to ensure social distancing in the audience, the operas will be just 90 minutes long with no intermissions. There will be major singers, as well, including J’Nai Bridges, Stephen Costello, Ana María Martínez and Morris Robinson, who also serves as Cincinnati Opera’s artistic advisor.īut there will be changes. The Cincinnati Opera Chorus and longtime chorus master Henri Venanzi will be there, as will a 40-piece ensemble from the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. He will manipulate Tosca into revealing the prisoner’s hiding place thus proving Cavaradossi’s treason, and with him out of the way, he will have her for himself.There is much that will be familiar about the summer festival. Scarpia has long lusted after Tosca, and when he suspects Cavaradossi of assisting Angelotti, an escaped political prisoner, he seizes the opportunity to kill two birds with one stone. The plot centers around three main characters – Rome’s favorite diva Floria Tosca, the painter and political activist Mario Cavaradossi (Tosca’s lover), and the corrupt Chief of Police, Baron Scarpia. Unlike many operas, with the action takes place over less than 24 hours, the events in the opera occur in almost real-time. Puccini’s political operatic thriller is set in Rome in June 1800 (during the Napoleonic wars and a time of great political unrest). Vissi D’Arte… Vissi D’Amore… The beautiful diva, Floria Tosca has lived for her art, and lived for love, but must make the ultimate choice: whether to give herself to another, in order to save her lover.

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