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WQED-FM 2024-25 Season Rebroadcast: Tosca
Saturday, September 13, 2025
1:00 PM
WQED-FM
Pittsburgh Opera 2024–25 Season Performances on WQED-FM 89.3 and wqed.org/fm Pittsburgh Opera, in collaboration with Classical WQED-FM 89.3, will broadcast the 2024-25 season productions, giving listeners an opportunity to enjoy the operas all over again.
Tosca
When painter Cavaradossi—the lover of Rome’s enchanting diva Floria Tosca—decides to harbor a fugitive of the law, he makes himself and his beloved Tosca a target of the corrupt Chief of Police, Baron Scarpia. Now it is up to Tosca to free both her lover and herself from Scarpia’s clutches by making a horrific bargain that will have consequences for them all. Puccini’s whirlwind political thriller packs high romance, dark motives, love, betrayal, murder, and intrigue all into a plot that unfolds over only 24 hours. See why Tosca is one of the most powerful operas ever written.
"This is a work and a performance that reminds us why so many people still attend and revere this art form."
"It's decidedly delicious"
-- Entertainment Central Pittsburgh
"...you could almost feel the audience gasp before it broke into one of the longest ovations heard in years."
