A timeless Tosca at Houston Grand Opera

By Sydney Boyd, 24 October 2015

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Reviewed at Wortham Theater Center: Brown Theater, Houston on 23 October 2015

Puccini, Tosca

Houston Grand Opera

Patrick Summers, Conductor

John Caird, Director

Bunny Christie, Set Designer, Costume Designer

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

Houston Grand Opera Orchestra

Duane Schuler, Lighting Designer

Bradley Moore, Conductor

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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.