Tosca

Royal Opera House, LondonDeborah Voigt's withdrawal due to illness from this revival of Jonathan Kent's 2006 production leaves the field open for two Romanian divas to share the title role: Angela Gheorghiu and Nelly Miricioiu. Gheorghiu took the first night, returning to a staging she helped create when it was new.In many ways, she's better now than when she sang Tosca three years ago. The scale of her singing matches the part more closely, and her acting is more considered. Even so, she retain...

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