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Tosca review

“Exciting but strangely uneven”
ReviewsJun 12, 2023by David BenedictGrange Park Opera, Horsley
Izabela Matula in Tosca at Grange Park Opera, Horsley. Photo: Marc Brenner
Izabela Matula in Tosca at Grange Park Opera, Horsley. Photo: Marc Brenner
Stephen Medcalf’s uneven, intermittently powerful staging, starring Izabela Matula and Otar Jorjikia, updates the opera to Fascist Italy

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David Benedict

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David Benedict has been a daily columnist and theatre editor on the Independent and arts editor of the Observer. He is chief London critic of Variety, a regular guest on the BBC, and is currently writing the authorised biography of Stephen Sondheim. Read David's columns for The Stage every Wednesday.

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