Royal Ballet & Opera: Tosca

The Royal Opera:

Rome in 1800 is in political chaos. Cesare Angelotti, a former consul of the short-lived Roman Republic, has escaped imprisonment, and seeks refuge in a church where the painter and republican sympathizer Mario Cavaradossi promises to hide him. Baron Scarpia, Rome’s tyrannical chief of police, suspects them and persuades the painter’s lover, opera singer Floria Tosca, whom he himself desires, that Cavaradossi has betrayed her. She leaves to confront Cavaradossi at his villa and Scarpia orders his men to follow her, in the hope they will find Angelotti and capture Cavaradossi. Alone with Tosca, Scarpia tells her that he will save Cavaradossi – but only if Tosca spends the night with him. Will Tosca yield to the man she hates to save the man she loves?