She lived for art. She sacrificed for love.\n\nPolitical tensions are high in Rome in June 1800—and the opera singer Floria Tosca gets caught in the crosshairs when her lover, the painter Mario Cavaradossi, aids an escaped prisoner to safety. When the tyrannical chief of police Baron Scarpia pulls Cavaradossi in to be interrogated, Tosca must decide whether she’s willing to sacrifice her honor to save her love.\n\nTosca returns to the War Memorial Opera House in this beloved San Francisco Opera production. Puccini’s tragic masterpiece has one of the most tightly-wrought opera scores, ratcheting up the already high-stakes drama at every turn. Can our heroine escape Baron Scarpia’s lascivious power? Can she find a way out of the trap closing in on her?\n\nDirector Shawna Lucey and designers Robert Innes Hopkins and Michael Clark take us around Rome to the three distinct locations of Tosca: the towering sanctuary of Sant’Andrea della Valle, Scarpia’s oppressive lair in the Palazzo Farnese, and the roof of the Castel Sant’Angelo where the story will come to its dramatic conclusion. Clelia Cafiero takes the podium to conduct one of Puccini’s most celebrated works.

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