Although their names and backgrounds contain historical allusions, the four main protagonists in Puccini s searing Tosca are fictional. Nevertheless, Cesare Angelotti, Mario Cavaradossi, Floria Tosca, and Baron Scarpia will be
Hope, and a call for justice, shine through Indianapolis Opera’s double bill of remembering atrocity, and for reflecting on what it means to treat each other with respect and humanity.