Puccini: Tosca (Finnish National Opera Helsinki)

Scarpia, Rome’s tyrannical Chief of Police, lusts after the singer Tosca. He arrests her lover Cavaradossi, believing that Tosca would be prepared to do anything to save him. The brave Tosca decides to rescue Cavaradossi and free herself from her persecutor once and for all. Scarpia, however, exacts revenge from beyond the grave.