As Scottish Opera approaches its 50th anniversary next month, it revives one of its best-known productions, Anthony Besch's 1980 staging of Puccini's Tosca.
In this, its seventh revival, directed by Jonathan Cocker, it has lost none of its power.
Besch's central conceptual contention, that the political and religious turmoil of Napoleonic Rome is transferable to the war-torn Italy of Mussolini, is a strong one.
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