Critically-acclaimed production - orig. staged in 2024, revived in 2025.
“….Prologue Opera explores a new way of bringing audiences closer to an opera by dramatizing the back story with original dialogue and songs, before presenting a condensed version of the opera itself. The Becoming format was such a success that…..the end result is lively, inventive and opera newbie friendly….” - Opera magazine, 2024
“minimalist professional opera at its best….” - Hastings Online Times, 2024
Becoming Tosca
You think you know opera? Think again.
Prologue Opera has produced a unique piece of drama that propels the audience into an abridged version of the original opera.
Performed in English, our productions feature newly composed music, the original music and other musical styles, allowing the characters to reveal more about their lives, motivations and relationships.
Becoming Tosca will engage, excite and entertain from the first note to the last, challenging your preconceptions of both the original piece and the art form itself.
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Meet the Team
Becoming Tosca - The Creatives
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![Chris Cowell]()
Christopher Cowell
ORIG. DIRECTOR, SCRIPT WRITER, TRANSLATOR
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![Lesley-Anne Sammons]()
Lesley-Anne Sammons
ORIG. MUSICAL DIRECTOR
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![Viva Halton Wright]()
Viva Halton Wright
ORIG. DESIGNER
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![Frank Moon]()
Frank Moon
COMPOSER
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![Boyan Ivanov]()
Boyan Ivanov
CLARINET
Becoming Tosca - The Cast
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![Anna Sideris]()
Anna Sideris
TOSCA
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![Anthony Flaum]()
Anthony Flaum
CAVARADOSSI & CEO PROLOGUE OPERA
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![Brendan Collins]()
Brendan Collins
SCARPIA
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![Jonathan Cooke]()
Jonathan Cooke
SPOLETTA
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![Harry Gentry]()
Harry Gentry
ANGELOTTI
