Tosca – an opera to die for
We went to see Tosca last night at the Mahalia Jackson theater and Mary Elizabeth Williams was fabulous – a must see. New Orleans had one of the first opera houses even thought that burned down and it now resides in the Mahalia Jackson theater in Louis Armstrong Park. But Tosca itself is filled with everything an opera should have – one twist and turn on top of another. Tosca’s love, a painter, harbors a prisoner, and sacrifices his life to save him, while Napoleon battles in the periphery, and then Tosca takes a life to save herself and her love, and then everyone at the end dies. There you have it – an opera in the making.
We were exhausted from traveling and all else, but it was a great respite to get out and see this.