Lucine Amara, Artistic Director of the New Jersey Association of Verismo Opera, announces the cast performing in Giacomo Puccini's Tosca on Sunday, October 15, 2017. Under Amara, one of the Metropolitan Opera's finest performers of Tosca, Verismo Opera, the Bergen Performing Arts Center's (bergenPAC) house opera company in Englewood, New Jersey, presents the opera at 3:00 p.m.

"Puccini's Tosca is deeply rife with three dimensional, intensely different personalities caught up in love---one's love of country, two romantic hearts, and another's evil quest for power. In Verismo Opera's production, before our eyes, we see Caravadossi, Tosca, and Scarpia come first to life and watch in horror, as each of them fatefully meets their end," explained Amara, who sang nine performances of Tosca at The Metropolitan Opera.