
Tosca 1978
Overview
A stellar cast brings Puccini’s spellbinding opera to life, seizing every opportunity to thrill the audience. Luciano Pavarotti is Cavaradossi, the painter and political revolutionary in love with the beautiful and famous singer Tosca (the riveting Shirley Verrett). Rome’s diabolical chief of police, Baron Scarpia (Cornell MacNeil), wants Tosca for himself—but he underestimates the fury of a woman in love. With torture, murder, and a suicide in its final moments, Tosca packs more dramatic punche
Director: Tito Gobbi
Cast

Shirley Verrett
Floria Tosca

Luciano Pavarotti
Mario Cavaradossi

Cornell MacNeil
Scarpia
Fernando Corena
Sacristan
John Cheek
Angelotti
Andrea Velis
Spoletta
Russell Christopher
Sciarrone

Robert Sapolsky
Sheperd
Philip Booth
Jailer

James Conlon