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‘Tosca’ Airs at Foothills Saturday

ONEONTA—On Saturday, November 23, at 1 p.m., the Foothills Performing Arts and Civic Center will present Giacomo Puccini’s “Tosca,” the third and last Metropolitan Opera HD Broadcast of 2024.

Prior to the broadcast, Glimmerglass Festival Guild Vice President Abby Kreh Gibson and Trustee Thomas Simpson will lead a free educational program beginning at 12:15 p.m. in the Upstairs Theater on the second floor. Foothills will open at 11:30 a.m.

The opera is adapted from a play by Victorien Sardou. It is a melodrama of intrigue, cruelty, deceptive hope, tragic irony, the unexpected, and emotional excitement. Puccini understood how to pile horror upon horror, and when it premiered in Rome on January 14, 1900, it was a huge success.

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