Name: Understanding the Music: Tosca
Start: 2025-11-01T13:00:00
Location: Canadian Museum for Human Rights

Manitoba Opera

It’s the eve of Figaro and Susanna’s wedding, but nothing is going right. The Count’s wandering eye has landed on the bride-to-be. Cherubino, the page, is sweet on the Countess, and Marcellina, the governess, is chasing after Figaro.

Mozart’s great ensemble comedy features a colourful cast of characters and a whirlwind of tricks, disguises, and mistaken identities. Can the servants turn the tables on the masters in order to teach the Count a lesson and save the wedding? Will love triumph?

From the famous overture to the finale, this social commentary on class and love unfolds with brilliant music, memorable melodies, and heart-breaking tenderness as the characters ponder young love, lost love, and forgiveness.

The Marriage of Figaro

Centennial Concert Hall

In this lecture, you’ll hear about how Puccini combined long-breathed romantic arias with modern verismo style, creating a soundscape of early 19th-century Rome in Tosca (1900). Presented by Colette Simonot-Maiello, Associate Professor of Musicology and Associate Dean at the Desautels Faculty of Music.