Tosca

Puccini’s Tosca comes to the Sir Ken Dodd Performance Garden, Knowsley: a gripping tale of love, power and sacrifice, reimagined in a dystopian future where tyranny and defiance collide.

Flat Pack Music’s new production places Tosca inside a near-future authoritarian regime of surveillance, propaganda and control. It’s opera at its most cinematic: an artist turned dissident, a regime “it-girl” celebrity, and a security chief with power without limits.

Tosca is the state’s celebrated poster-girl — adored by the public, protected by the system, and expected to embody loyalty. Her lover, the artist Mario Cavaradossi, lives dangerously at the edges of the regime, using his work to preserve truth in a world built on fear. When Cavaradossi helps a hunted dissident, he draws the attention of Baron Scarpia, the ruthless Chief of Security. Scarpia sets a trap that forces Tosca into an impossible choice: submit and save Mario, or resist and lose everything. As events spiral from intimidation to betrayal, Tosca must decide who she is without the machine that made her — and what love is worth when the state controls the outcome.

“You’ve got to know what you’re doing to take opera in a slightly different direction and Flat Pack Music have that in droves…”
Mark Davoren – North West End

“The combination of voices in the cast blended beautifully to create an outstanding show which was mesmerising throughout.”
Donna M Day

“The beauty of Flat Pack Music’s production of La Bohème… is how both opera virgins… and libretto aficionados alike are catered for…”
Lisa Marie Rand – La Vida Liverpool