Archive for May 2013
Los Angeles Opera’s ‘Tosca’ delights opening night audience
Sondra Radvanovsky as Tosca and Marco Berti as Cavaradossi, with Lado Ataneli as Scarpia. Photo: Robert Millard
Monday, May 20: Review by David Gregson
The Los Angeles Opera opening night audience appeared to love it. Every moment of Floria Tosca’s obsessively jealous behavior evoked an appreciative response, mostly laughter of course — for La Tosca‘s treatment of her boyfriend, the painter Mario Cavaradossi, is indeed comically irritating. Everyone was clearly following the supertitles closely. The emergence and reemergence in the pit of conductor Plácido Domingo leading the Los Angeles Opera orchestra elicited endless delight. Read More