Tosca by Giacomo Puccini English National Opera, London Coliseum, September 1988 This was a contemporary staging of Tosca, done in the setting of Rome, 1944, German occupation. Angelotti is a resistance fighter who has escaped from jail; Cavarodossi is a painter and Underground sympathezier; Scarpia is the fascist police chief and Tosca, of course, a diva. Like all ENO productions, it was sung in English and that, together with the setting, made this a very accessible opera. The acting was much higher quality than most opera I have seen; the singing was fine, although nowhere breathtaking. Peter Rose was Angelotti; Edmund Barham was Cavaradossi; Malcolm Donnelly sang Scarpia and Janice Cairns was Tosca. Paul Daniel conducted; Stephanps Lazaridis, designer.