Tosca and her Toy Boy tenor impress at OHP

Opera Holland Park has opened the season with Puccini’s operatic blockbuster Tosca.  At OHP the stage was transformed into a back alley in Rome. It was 1968, mid-election, and there was trouble on the streets. In the opening scene, the police laid into demonstrators, political prisoners hid out in the church, while police chief, Scarpia, issued…