Nashville Opera Opens the 2009-10 Season With Giacomo Puccini?s TOSCA 10/8, 10/10
Nashville Opera opens the 2009-10 season with a grand production of Giacomo Puccini's Tosca in the Tennessee Performing Arts Center's Andrew Jackson Hall on Thursday, October 8 at 7:00 pm and Saturday, October 10 at 8:00 pm. The work will be sung in Italian with projected English translations and features the Nashville Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Maestro Steven White. Tosca is directed by Nashville Opera's Artistic Director, John Hoomes. Tickets range from $17 to $80 and are available by calling Nashville Opera at (615) 832-5242, online at www.nashvilleopera.org, or by calling the Tennessee Performing Arts Center Box Office at 782-4040. A limited number of "pay what you can" tickets can be purchased on a first come, first served basis exclusively from Nashville Opera.
Cast
FLORIA TOSCA ERIKA SUNNEGARDH, SOPRANO
Nashville Opera Debut, Metropolitan Opera, Florentine Opera, Atlanta Opera, Welsh National Opera
MARIO CAVARADOSSI WILLIAM JOYNER, TENOR
Nashville Opera Debut, New York City Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Kentucky Opera
BARON SCARPIA LUIS LEDESMA, BARITONE
Nashville Opera: Samson & Delilah, L'Opéra de Montréal, Florida Grand Opera, Arizona Opera, Houston Grand Opera, New York City Opera
CESARE ANGELOTTI MATTHEW TREVINO, BASS
Nashville Opera Debut, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Fresno Grand Opera, Sacramento Opera, Nevada Opera,
Fort Worth Opera
SACRISTAN/SCIARRONE STEFAN SZKAFAROWSKY, BASS
Nashville Opera Debut, Metropolitan Opera, Atlanta Opera, Tulsa Opera, Florentine Opera, Florida Grand Opera
SPOLETTA TRACY WISE, TENOR
Nashville Opera Debut, Dallas Opera, Opera Birmingham, Utah Symphony and Opera, Opera Theatre of St. Louis,
Lyric Opera of Kansas City
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