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Arts & Entertainment

Discovering Opera: Puccini's Tosca

Giacomo Puccini's Tosca is the first truly great opera of the 20th century. Enjoy a gripping story filled with love, jealousy, lust, murder, and finally suicide.  With all this excitement set to wonderful music.

Lecturer Bradford Wade will give a guided tour of the opera, with
a description of the plot interspersed with musical examples. He will also provide some historical background and describe a few of the operatic disasters.

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