Tosca - English National Opera

A new reimagining of this opera by English National Opera, staged at the London Coliseum, in which a singer's secret meeting becomes a night of political danger.

Annilese Miskimmon, Artistic Director of English National Opera, has reimagined this work, which follows the opera singer Floria Tosca. The production comes after the company's 2025 staging of Dead Man Walking and turns to resistance, political censorship and the capacity of love and art to stand against tyranny.

The action takes place in a concert hall in an unnamed European state drawn into civil conflict. Tosca arranges a clandestine rendezvous with her lover, the painter Mario Cavaradossi, but the corrupt police chief Scarpia intrudes, and a building given over to music becomes a place of menace and brutality. Over the course of a single night, Tosca must defend her love, her honour and her own life.

The staging can be seen on its own or alongside Kaija Saariaho's Adriana Mater, a pairing that examines the human toll of war and the endurance of the human spirit. Both works are part of the company's forthcoming season. The production is presented at the London Coliseum.