Tosca - Te Deum (Alexey Markov; The Royal Opera)

Alexey Markov as Scarpia performs Te Deum from The Royal Opera’s thrilling production of Tosca. Puccini’s great opera of passion and politics is on the Main Stage and will have cinema Encore screenings on 19 January 2022. Find your nearest screening: Three outstanding casts bring alive the excitement of one of the best loved operas in the repertory: Puccini’s Tosca. From the demonic chords with which it famously begins to the violent twist of its shock ending, the tension never lets up for a moment. Into the romantic world of an idealistic painter, Cavaradossi, and his sensuous lover Tosca comes the malevolence of Baron Scarpia, Chief of Police, with fatal results. Jonathan Kent’s taut and intense production with Paul Brown’s historically charged designs wonderfully evokes the dangerous atmosphere of Rome in 1800, where love and evil come – thrillingly – face to face. Enjoy this video? Subscribe to our channel to receive notifications about new ballet and op