Andris Nelsons conducts Tosca

Andris Nelsons conducts Puccini’s Tosca with soprano Kristine Opolais and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, in a concert performance sung in Italian with English supertitles.

Kristine Opolais, soprano (Tosca)
Seok Jong Baek, tenor (Cavaradossi)+
Bryn Terfel, baritone (Scarpia)
Morris Robinson, bass (Angelotti)
Patrick Carfizzi, bass-baritone (Sacristan)
Nicholas Newton, bass-baritone (Sciarrone/The Jailer)
Neal Ferreira, tenor (Spoletta)
Tanglewood Festival Chorus
James Burton, conductor

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Prelude Concert
TMC Chamber Music

PUCCINI Crisantemi (Chrysanthemums), for string quartet
TCHAIKOVSKY Souvenir de Florence, for string sextet, Op. 70

Fellows of the Tanglewood Music Center perform a mini-concert before the main event to whet your musical appetite.

Kristine Opolais is one of the most sought-after sopranos on the international scene, with an established reputation amongst the world’s preeminent singing actresses.

Opolais has appeared on the world’s greatest stages, including The Metropolitan Opera House, Wiener Staatsoper, Staatsoper Berlin, Bayerische Staatsoper, Teatro alla Scala, Opernhaus Zürich, and the Royal Opera House. She collaborates with renowned conductors, including Daniel Barenboim, Sir Antonio Pappano, Sir Simon Rattle, Sir Mark Elder, Andris Nelsons, Fabio Luisi, and Kirill Petrenko.

In the 2024/25 season, Opolais joins the Orchestra of the Finnish National Opera, conducted by Roderick Cox, for Shostakovich’s Symphony No.14, which she also performs as part of the Gewandhausorchester’s Shostakovich Festival under Nelsons’ baton. Opolais has formally recorded this piece with the Boston Symphony Orchestra for Deutsche Grammophon.

SeokJong Baek has continued to draw international attention following his Royal Opera House debut as Samson in Richard Jones’s new production of Saint-Saëns Samson et Dalila and is fast establishing himself as an artist of note, winning widespread praise for his arresting lirico/spinto sound and refined technical accomplishment.

Baek’s critically acclaimed portrayal of Samson was not only a house and role debut, but also his professional debut as a tenor, having transitioned from baritone over the coronavirus lockdown period. As a baritone, he was an Adler Fellow and a member of the Merola Programme at the San Francisco Opera, as well as a former resident artist of the Lyric Opera of Kansas and an alumnus of the Manhattan School of Music.

Highlights of the 2024/25 season includes Cavaradossi Tosca for the Metropolitan Opera, Cavaradossi & Calaf Turandot for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and Radames Aida for the Deutsche Oper Berlin. Additionally Baek makes his role debut as Rodolfo La Bohème at Arizona Opera and returns to the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino.

Morris Robinson is considered one the most interesting and sought after basses performing today. Robinson regularly appears at the Metropolitan Opera where he debuted in a production of Beethoven’s Fidelio and has since appeared as Sarastro in Mozart’s The Magic Flute (both in the original production and in the children’s English-language version), Ferrando in Verdi’s Il trovatore, the King in Aida, and in roles in Nabucco, Wagner’s Tannhäuser, and the new productions of Berlioz’s Les Troyens and Strauss’s Salome.

He has also appeared at the San Francisco Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Dallas Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, Opera Philadelphia, Seattle Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Cincinnati Opera, Teatro alla Scala, Volksoper Wien, Opera Australia, and the Aix-en-Provence Festival.