And his heartbreaking closer, “E lucevan le stelle,” is so achingly pure that it’s a shame the orchestra didn’t take a beat to give the opening-night audience a chance to applaud his efforts. She’s flighty, feminine and playful with her lover, painter Mario Cavaradossi, but she flashes with fury and sings both plaintively and almost convulsively from the soul in the famous aria “Vissi d’arte.”Īs the doomed Cavaradossi, Welsh tenor Gwyn Hughes Jones sings with such robust power and ease that he makes it look easy to fill the cavernous Civic Theatre with his opening aria “Recondita Armonia,” which ends impressively on a sustained high B-flat. The minimum going Opera San Jose: Tosca ticket price for the show at the California Theatre - San Jose at 07:30 PM is 252.00, while the maximum price right now is 537.00. Greek soprano Alexia Voulgaridou makes a heartrending local debut as Floria Tosca, the Roman opera singer whose romantic jealousy has tragic consequences for all. It’s not the flashiest “Tosca” you’ll ever hear, but it rings truer than most. Instead their arias are performed with technical precision and entirely in character.

Director Lesley Koenig has smartly avoided staging cliches and has steered her singers away from bombastic performances.

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