Tosca
2024
Opera
Deputy Stage Manager
Credit for all photographs: Craig Fuller
Tosca was part of the 2024 season for The Grange Festival. In addition to the principal cast, the production also involved a professional chorus of 24 sopranos, altos, tenors and basses, as well as over 40 supernumeraries. I had the further challenge of cueing the sound effect of a cannon during the final sequence of Act One, which had to fit musically within the orchestration.
Cast
- Angelotti - Dan D'Souza
- Cavaradossi - Andrés Presno
- Sacristan - Darren Jeffery
- Scarpia - Andrew Manea
- Sciarrone - Stuart Orme
- Spoletta - Vladimir-Mihai Sima
- Tosca - Francesca Tiburzi
Creative Team
- Director - Christopher Luscombe
- Conductor - Francesco Cilluffo
- Set & Costume Designer - Simon Higlett
- Lighting Designer - Mark Jonathan
- Fight & Intimacy Director - Maisie Carter
- Assistant Director - Rachel Wise
- Production Manager - Tom Nickson
- Company Manager - Steven Phillips
- Stage Manager - Checca Ponsonby
- Assistant Stage Manager - Emily Foster
- Wardrobe Supervisor - Karen Large
Review Quotes
Wonderful music, magnificent theatre, and in Francesca Tiburzi, a Tosca for the ages.
Chris Kettle, Seen and Heard