A timeless Tosca at Houston Grand Opera

Por Sydney Boyd, 24 octubre 2015

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Crítica hecha desde Wortham Theater Center: Brown Theater, Houston el 23 octubre 2015

Puccini, Tosca

Houston Grand Opera

Patrick Summers, Dirección

John Caird, Dirección de escena

Bunny Christie, Diseño de escena, Diseño de vestuario

Liudmyla Monastyrska, Floria Tosca

Alexey Dolgov, Mario Cavaradossi

Andrzej Dobber, Baron Scarpia

Dmitry Belosselskiy, Cesare Angelotti

David Cangelosi, Spoletta

Kyle Albertson, Sacristan

Ben Edquist, Sciarrone

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Duane Schuler, Diseño de iluminación

Bradley Moore, Dirección

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Sydney Boyd

Sydney Boyd is an arts writer, scholar, and violinist. She has been a music critic in Houston since 2012 and is the blog author of Girl at the Opera. She has a Ph.D. in English literature from Rice University, where she currently holds a post-doctoral Spatial Studies fellowship in the Humanities Research Center.