Tosca
Giacomo Puccini
2020
Northern Lights Music Festival – Minnesota Discovery Center Amphitheater
Dirección Musical / Conductor: Gavriel Heine
Dirección Artística / Artistic Director: Veda Zuponcic
Dirección Escénica y concepto / Stage Director: Chía Patiño
Diseño Escénico / Escenic Design: Phil Graneto
Diseño de Luces / Light Design: Erin Earle Fleming
Reparto / Cast
Floria Tosca: Leah Crocetto
Mario Cavaradossi: Rafael Davila
Baron Scarpia: Daniel Sutin
Cesare Angelotti: Mark Billy
Sacristan: Rafael Porto
Spoletta: Peter Joshua Burroughs
Sciarrone: Andres Losada
Prensa / Press
ReviewSchmopera - The Concessions We Make For Live Opera: Tosca Goes Up At Northern Lights Music Festival
“The cast and crew of Northern Lights delivered an exciting performance-global pandemic regardless. Tosca played at The Minnesota Discovery Theater in Chisholm, Minnesota July 17 and 19.”
Schmopera, July 2020.
Prensa / Press
Forging ahead in the pandemic, this Minnesota opera is built Iron Range-tough
“On stage, director Chía Patiño is blocking characters carefully. No singer will be asked to do anything they’re not comfortable with, Zuponcic said. If they want 12 feet distance, they’ll get it.
StarTribune July, 03, 2020
Prensa / Press
El Festival Northern Lights de Minnesota, el primero en Estados Unidos en escenificar ópera
“Entre el apagón general de ópera en Estados Unidos a causa de la Covid-19, una pequeña luz brilla en el noroeste del estado de Minnesota, a pocos kilómetros de la frontera con Canadá.”
ÓA, Ópera Actual, Julio, 04, 2020.
Prensa / Press
The show will go on in Aurora — from a safe distance
“Rather than cancel the annual music festival, its organizers have found ways to create art that aligns with the standards of social distancing.”
Duluth News Tribune, July 14th 2020.
Prensa / Press
Opera - Issue September 2020
“On a soupy summer evening, the twists and contortions of the Covid-19 crisis made it momentarily the epicentre of the American opera industry, as the NORTHERN LIGHTS MUSIC FESTIVAL presented what was probably the first opera performed live in the US with an audience present since lockdown started.”