26 Jan 2009

A listless 'Tosca' never catches fire

http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/jan/26/1c26opera19340-listless-tosca-never-catches-fire/?zIndex=42937

By Marcus L. Overton [San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 January 2009]

San Diego Opera launched its 44th season Saturday at the Civic Theatre with Giacomo Puccini’s “Tosca,” a fitting salute to one of opera’s most popular composers, just a little more than four weeks after his 150th birthday anniversary on Dec. 22.