OPERA BRAVA are thrilled to be returning to Corfu for a second year running. They bring together a cast of national and international singers to bring to life Puccini’s incredible score, TOSCA. This most dramatic of operas is performed against the spectacular backdrop of the Open-air Kopani theatre at Gastouri.

Accompanied by their professional chamber ensemble under the talented direction of Robert Bottriell.

Tosca is one of the most lethal operas. None of the central characters make it to the end alive, hero or villain. Unsurprisingly then, it’s a thrilling melodrama often dismissed as one dimensional. However you would be foolish to go in with this attitude. Opera Brava have set this production in Rome in the 1940’s during the war and they take Puccini’s overtly theatrical tale and make it astonishingly moving with an unusual twist in the final scene.

The Corfu Arts Foundation is a charity registered in UK and founded in 2015. The aims are to promote the performing and visual arts in Corfu, to support other charities and to help young musicians from the Ionian University embarking on their careers. We do this by putting on events, particularly but not exclusively operas, in houses and other spaces to raise funds and also to encourage sponsorship.The enthusiasm of the chairman for all this is that Corfu has an amazing musical tradition going back to the opening of the San Giacomo opera house in 1733 and then the building of the municipal theatre in 1902, which was an exact replica of La Scala, Milan and was unfortunately destroyed by German bombing in the 2nd world war. Throughout this time opera and classical music thrived in Corfu and La Scala trialled many of its operas there, Donizetti wrote 4 of his operas for a Corfiot mezzo soprano and Nabucco had its first performance there. Our long-term aim is to rebuild the opera house.