Turning into Tosca: a brand new opera for Summer season 2024 with two last performances quickly in Hastings

Hastings-based Prologue Opera is presenting its new manufacturing of Turning into Tosca. After two profitable early July performances it is going to be placed on at The Stables Theatre in Hastings on twenty third and twenty fourth July.

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Turning into Tosca is an progressive and distinctive piece of drama, illuminating the sooner lives of the characters from Puccini’s unique rating and propelling the viewers into the world of Floria Tosca. Turning into Tosca will convey a night of revolution, romance and tragedy, combining newly composed music with a tango flavour and an abridged model of Puccini’s rating.

An skilled crew of native Hastings creatives are bringing Turning into Tosca to life. The founding father of Prologue Opera, Anthony Flaum, will likely be performing in and producing the piece alongside a stellar forged {of professional} singers. Most of the forged and crew are native East Sussex residents, together with operatic tenor Anthony Flaum, extremely acclaimed composer Frank Moon, Designer Viva Halton Wright, Stage Supervisor Jane Richardson and Lighting Designers James Dean and Jonathan Richardson. As well as, forged member Harry Gentry is a brand new expertise from the White Rock Youth Theatre and will likely be enjoying the younger revolutionary Angelotti.

About Turning into Tosca: Catholicism and the enchantment of dictatorship are by no means removed from the floor in Puccini’s Tosca. Can revolution or faith change human nature? Can artwork be the agent of both or does it merely passively report the method? Turning into Tosca relocates the motion to a Latin American setting within the twentieth century; a nation based on Jesuit colonisation, the place faith now jostles with the politics of capitalism and self-interest. It’s a society dominated by the battle to change poverty for affect, nonetheless in search of options to all-pervasive inequalities and oppressions. Does the church love repentance or does it choose punishment? Is brutality a essential weapon to manage a turbulent inhabitants? Even now, we wouldn’t have solutions and till we do, these questions should proceed to be examined.

The manufacturing has been developed by Prologue Opera’s CEO, Anthony Flaum. He commented: ‘We’ve got created Turning into Tosca with the intention of bringing a standard opera to new, native audiences. Our tackle the traditional Puccini opera is a vibrant interpretation of the sooner life of those highly effective and intriguing characters with an thrilling rating with some Latin infusion, good for a summer time night’s leisure.

‘The vast majority of our forged and crew are East Sussex residents and we’ve a mixed ardour to convey a brand new sort of artwork to native theatres. We’re additionally thrilled to be investing in native expertise and the addition of Harry Gentry from the White Rock Youth Theatre underlines our mission to create progressive arts expertise for the area people.’

Forged checklist:
Tosca – Anna Sideris
Scarpia – Brendan Collins
Cavaradossi – Anthony Flaum
Spoletta – Jonathan Cooke
Angelotti – Harry Gentry

Director, Script and Translation – Christopher Cowell
Designer – Viva Halton Wright
Stage administration – Jane Richardson
Lighting designer – James Dean, Jon Richardson
Composer – Frank Moon