Princeton Festival production effectively conveys the essence of Puccini’s ‘Tosca’
By: COURTNEY SMITH | Published: 2025-06-19 11:42:00 | Source: www.njarts.net
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Toni Marie Palmertree as Tosca, with Victor Starsky as Cavaradossi, in The Princeton Festival’s production of “Tosca.”
Opera-goers were treated to all the passion, tragedy and torment of Giacomo Puccini’s three-act melodrama, “Tosca,” in an attentive and faithful new production, featuring stage direction by Eve Summer, at this year’s Princeton Festival. It struck the perfect balance between drama and verismo.
A trio of heroic leads — Toni Marie Palmertree as Floria Tosca, Victor Starsky as Mario Cavaradossi and Luis Ledesma as Baron Scarpia — plus a romantic treatment of the score by music director Rossen Milanov and The Princeton Symphony Orchestra kept Puccini’s blood-soaked tale above the bleak edge.
The fully staged production —…
