The Ukrainian National Opera brings its production of Puccini's Tosca to the Scarborough Spa Grand Hall.
The Ukrainian National Opera bring Puccini's Tosca to the Scarborough Spa Grand Hall on Friday 12 February 2027. It's a full staging of one of the most famous operas in the repertoire, and it's the first of two UK dates the company has lined up for the spring.
If you're not familiar with Tosca, it's a high-drama story set in Rome around 1800, following the titular singer, her lover Mario Cavaradossi, and the ruthless Chief of Police, Baron Scarpia. It's Puccini at his most cinematic, full of political intrigue, betrayal, and some of the most recognisable arias in opera. The Ukrainian National Opera will be performing it in full, so you'll get the whole story from start to finish.
This isn't their only stop on this side of the North Sea, either. A few weeks later, they're heading to Sheffield to perform Madama Butterfly at Sheffield City Hall's Oval Hall on 24 March 2027. If you're a fan of Puccini, that's two of his biggest works in the region within about six weeks, and both brought by the same company.
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It fits into a wider tradition of opera in this part of the country, too. Around here, opera tends to come in a few different shapes: fully staged productions like this one, semi-staged versions, and concert performances. The repertoire is just as varied, running from Mozart and Rossini through to Gilbert & Sullivan and Lehar. Tosca sits right in the middle of that, a big, staged production of a late-Romantic classic.
So, mark it down: The Ukrainian National Opera perform Tosca at the Scarborough Spa Grand Hall, South Bay, Scarborough YO11 2HD, on Friday 12 February 2027.
