Education Director Nick Reveles does a quick survey of great tenors from the past who have interpreted the role of Mario Cavaradossi in Tosca.  There's some great singing here!

For you newcomers out there, here's a list of ten ways to help you enjoy Puccini's masterpiece even more when you come to the Civic Theatre for a performance.  Developed from years of opera-going and a desire to know just a little more about an opera before I go.  I hope it helps!

Let's continue last week's discussion about musical 'characterization' and see how Britten and Puccini deal with defining characters through music.

Musical characterization is something that an opera composer does to distinguish operatic characters from each other, musical signals that tell us about their personalities.  Let's take a look at our first three season productions and try to find out how these composers tell the stories of the characters in their operas.