Royal Opera

Tosca

In Cinemas 25, 26 & 29 Oct 2025
Conductor
Jakub Hrůša
Orchestra
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Cast
Anna Netrebko (Floria Tosca), Freddie De Tommaso (Mario Cavaradossi), Gerald Finley (Baron Scarpia), Carlo Bosi (Spoletta), Ossian Huskinson (Cesare Angelotti), Alessandro Corbelli (Sacristan), Siphe Kwani (Sciarrone)
Composer
Giacomo Puccini
Director
Oliver Mears
Set Design
Simon Lima Holdsworth
Duration
Approx. 3h including an interval
Sung in Italian, with English subtitles.
Captured live from Covent Garden, London, Sep 2025
Official Event Listing
  • I doubt I will ever see a better performance in this title role. Netrebko was rivetingly credible in every persona. Mears' production is a banker.
    David Karlin, BACHTRACK
    Netrebko sings at a mighty scale. Finley is unforgettable... in 50 years of Tosca at the Royal Opera House there has been nobody to match him. Hrůša gets first-class playing from the orchestra.
    Richard Fairman, FINANCIAL TIMES
    Striking. A performance of tremendous emotional force.
    Flora Willson, THE GUARDIAN
    Jakub Hrůša begins his tenure as the RBO’s new music director with an impassionately conducted, and scrupulously played performance of Puccini’s evergreen masterpiece.
    Keith McDonnell, MUSIC OMH
    A triumphant return to Covent Garden for Anna Netrebko, her soprano has never sounded bigger – or deeper - the range of colours produced was truly outstanding.
    Mark Pullinger, OPERA NOW
    Netrebko’s presence, as much as her beautiful voice, dominates the stage as you feel, in real time, art swamping politics - as it must, from time to time, if we are to stay sane. An orchestra on top form under Jakub Hrůša’s baton
    Gary Naylor, BROADWAY WORLD
    Netrebko gave a superlative account of the role, thunderously received by the audience. Mears’ production, in combination with Hrůša’s handling of the score, meticulously pointed but shaped with loving Italianate warmth, is gripping.
    Barry Millington, EVENING STANDARD
    Anna Netrebko at the top of her game, charismatic and volatile. In the pit Jakub Hrůša paces the drama perfectly and inspires superb orchestral playing.
    Neil Fisher, LONDON TIMES

Opera in three acts (1900)

New production! The splendour of Rome. The devastation of war.

Puccini’s operatic thriller returns in an unmissable, gripping new production by Oliver Mears, the first to be conducted by Music Director of The Royal Opera Jakub Hrůša in his new role.

Floria Tosca (Anna Netrebko) and Mario Cavaradossi (Freddie De Tommaso) live for each other and for their art. But when Cavaradossi helps an escaped prisoner, the lovers make a deadly enemy in the form of Baron Scarpia (Grammy-winning bass-baritone Gerald Finley), Chief of Police. At the mercy of Scarpia’s twisted desires, Tosca is forced to make a horrific bargain: sleeping with the man she hates in order to save the man she loves. Can she find a way out? 

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