![]() Carmen Giannattasio plays a brilliant, dramatic Tosca | Credit: Cory Weaver/San Francisco Opera In the final act she bustled around impatiently to get the supposedly staged shooting of Cavaradossi underway. She yanked the blade free from a shield bristling with others and seemed to thrill at the sight of it. The way she chose the dagger to kill her menacing adversary was not played as some surreptitious calculation but rather as an idea that sprang on her full-blown. Her ostensible respect for a statue of the Madonna got a laugh from the opening-night audience - it seemed more pose than piety.Įven when things heated up to a murderous pitch, in her confrontation with the villain Scarpia (baritone Scott Hendricks) in Act 2, Giannattasio retained a certain girlish, impetuous air. ![]() She picked up one of his paintbrushes and playfully brandished it like a weapon, then proceeded to treat him like a coloring book, daubing and stroking his beard like a naughty child. In the first act she flounced and pouted and toyed with her lover, the painter Cavaradossi (tenor Brian Jagde). Carmen Giannattasio as Tosca and Scott Hendricks as Scarpia | Credit: Cory Weaver/San Francisco OperaĪnyone who watched her without attending to her singing might have thought soprano Carmen Giannattasio was playing a soubrette role as the title character in San Francisco Opera’s new production of Tosca.
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