The Council for the Fine Arts presents its second trip into the NYC Opera. This year we will be seeing Puccini's classic tale of Tosca.

Tickets are only $25 with bus transportation provided by the College! Reserve your spot now by paying in cash or check at the Office of Student Life.

'Student only' sales will go through Friday, March 7, 2008. Then tickets will be open to the entire campus community starting Monday, March 10th.

The following description is care of NYCopera.com

Under Mark Lamos’s direction, Puccini’s dramatic masterpiece is "a gripping production of the ultimate surefire opera” (Daily News). Anna Shafajinskaia, one of opera’s most exciting dramatic sopranos, triumphantly returns to the leading role, performing with a sound The New York Times calls “appealingly dark and rounded.”

The world is her stage. A renowned opera diva, Tosca has a flair for the dramatic. Caught in a web of bluffs, betrayals, and double crosses, nothing will keep her from the man she loves… not even death.

A co-production with Glimmerglass Opera. Sung in Italian with English supertitles.

PRODUCTION:
Conductor: Steuart Bedford
Production: Mark Lamos
Set Designer: Michael Yeargan
Costume Designer: Constance Hoffman
Lighting Designer: Robert Wierzel
Chorus Master: Gary Thor Wedow
Children's Chorus Director: Anthony Piccolo
Supertitles: Cori Ellison

CAST:
Floria Tosca: Anna Shafajinskaia
Cavaradossi: Raul Melo
Spoletta: James Schaffner
Sciarrone: Museop Kim
Cesare Angelotti: Branch Fields
Baron Scarpia: Todd Thomas
Gaoler: Don Yule

For more information, please contact Sally Shorrock at 447-3258.