Tickets are available here.Īnnie Labatt, a visual arts professor at Sweet Briar College who is a frequent guest lecturer at the San Antonio Museum of Art and the McNay Art Museum, will deliver a pre-performance talk to help engage the audience even further in Puccini’s masterpiece.

at the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts. Opera San Antonio will present two performances of Tosca, on Thursday and Saturday, Sept. “Opera is actually incredibly accessible to everyone, with so many ways to appreciate it, but it has this unfortunate stereotype that it’s only for some select group of people,” Lopez said. “She wants to protect her love, but her issue is one of how far she is willing to go to protect it … which is a conflict that resonates with all sorts of people.”īoth Meeker and Lopez believe that this particular opera, which uses sets from the Seattle Opera, could prove an accessible entry point for those who have yet to acquire a taste for the art form. “Here you have a woman in love who has to navigate an intense political situation and come up with her own solutions,” said Veronica Lopez, Opera San Antonio’s artistic administrator.

In the opera, Tosca fails to get exactly the result she wants, but her courage in facing down and overcoming her captor strikes a note of defiant hope and partial victory. “Through Tosca, you can look at our history and interrogate how we want to look at our future,” Meeker said. She also noted that Tosca deals, implicitly and explicitly, “with areas that we are still struggling with as humans.” These thematic areas include political ambition, love, and faith, but they also include violence, domination, and possession – themes that Meeker feels relate to the #MeToo movement and, in general, our unstable social milieu.

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