The beloved Giacomo Puccini opera stars soprano Michelle Bradley, tenor Marcelo Puente and bass-baritone Greer Grimsley
Whenever someone asks my opinion on the perfect “first” opera to attend, I always pick “Tosca” or “La bohème.”
This production features three excellent opera singers with huge voices that easily fill the 3,000-seat Civic Theatre without amplification. It also features a large chorus and scenery so massive and beautiful that the sets themselves drew scattered applause when the curtain went up on the first and third acts Saturday.
The scenery will be familiar to audience members who saw SDO’s 2016 “Tosca,” and so will one of the production’s principal singers, bass-baritone Greer Grimsley, who is playing the opera’s villain, Scarpia, for the third time in San Diego . Scarpia is Grimsley’s signature role, and it’s hard to imagine a singer who’s as vocally robust in the role and as superb in acting the wicked part.
“Vissi d’arte” . She’s also a fine actress who showcases her character’s quicksilver emotions in the second act, where she bargains and fights with Scarpia for Cavaradossi’s life.
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