![]() ![]() Scarpia (acted by the indisposed Noel Bouley on opening night while Roland Wood sang from the side of the stage) and his henchmen wear ancien régime outfits, while Adam Smith’s Cavaradossi and Msimelelo Mbali’s Angelotti are in 1950s suits. At the same time, however, you can’t help but feel he’s trying to do fractionally too much with it, deploying elements of symbolism that don’t always cohere.Ī deliberate jumble of periods in Christian Schmidt’s designs underscores the ideological conflict between revolutionary republicanism and a corrupt monarchy at the work’s centre. Loy, as one might expect, carefully probes his protagonists’ psyches, often with fascinating results. Conducted by Leo Hussain, it’s a compelling, albeit idiosyncratic piece of theatre. ![]() English National Opera opens its season with Puccini’s Tosca, in a staging by Christof Loy, new to London, but first performed by the Finnish National Opera in Helsinki in 2018. ![]()
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