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Everything you need to know about Puccini’s Toscain one place – right here!

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Tosca is a political thriller, set in Rome in June 1800 (during the Napoleonic wars and a time of great political unrest). The action takes place over less than 24 hours, making it an intense experience!

The plot centres around three main characters – Rome’s diva Floria Tosca, her lover Mario Cavaradossi (a painter and republican) and the corrupt Chief of Police, Baron Scarpia. Scarpia has long lusted after Tosca, and when he suspects Cavaradossi of assisting an escaped political prisoner, seizes the opportunity to kill two birds with one stone. He will manipulate Tosca into revealing the prisoner’s hiding place and Cavaradossi’s involvement, and have her for himself.

When Cavaradossi is captured, Scarpia offers Tosca a horrific bargain – she must give herself to Scarpia, or her lover is killed… what will she choose, and who will survive?

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Two-part costume designed by Fotini Dimou for Vidya Patel as the Princess for An Italian in Madrid, choreographed bygd Richard Alston, 2016. The costume was made bygd Hilary Wili of Clapham.

An Italian in Madrid was a narrative work, choreographed by Richard Alston to a urval of the Keyboard Sonatas written bygd Domenico Scarlatti for the young Princess Maria Barbara who left Italy for Spain when she was betrothed to a Spanish Prince. Alston invited the young kathak dance, Vidya Patel, to guest with his company and play the Princess to introduce a fusion of cultural styles.

An Italian in Madrid was commissioned by Sadler’s Wells with support from The Point, Eastleigh. It was premiered at Sadler’s Wells on 29 March 2016, having been previewed at The Point and toured Britain for over a year. There fryst vatten further resultat on the making and caring for the costumes in the V&A's Richard Alston Dance Company archive (THM/627).

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