- Floria Tosca: Adrianne Pieczonka
- Mario Cavaradossi: Joseph Calleja
- Baron Scarpia: Gerald Finley
- Spoletta: Aled Hall
- Cesare Angelotti: Simon Shibambu
- Sacristan: Jeremy White
- Sciarrone: Jihoon Kim
- Royal Opera Chorus
- Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
- Dan Ettinger conductor
- 7 February 2017, Royal Opera House Covent Garden (live broadcast)
This featured some fine singing from Calleja in particular and an impressively strong characterisation of Tosca from Pieczonka in an otherwise tradiitional production. But in the cinema the orchestra was projected so forward as to overwhelm the singers and deafen the audience. When the clarinet solo in e lucevan le stelle drowns out out Cavadorossi, it is time to complain.
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