"Back by popular demand!" While it's an oft-used cliche, it's the absolute truth in this case!  Carter Scott (Tosca) and Michael Chioldi (Scarpia) just can't get enough of this opera and we can't get enough of them!  In 2005, they burned up Bass Hall's stage in our Tosca, and...well, why change a good thing?  The 2005 Star-Telegram review said it all: "The intensity they projected was almost frightening."

This will be Michael's fifth time to perform the evil Baron Scarpiaand Carter's sixth time as the jealous diva Tosca.  Carter says, "It's very easy to sing with someone you have sung with before...you do have to step out of yourself to portray a character, but if you know the person, it's much easier to do."  Carter and Michael were young artists together in Santa Fe, and now they both live in New York and see each other socially between gigs.  So what have they been up to since 2005?  

Michael has been racking up frequent flier miles: he has been to Washington D.C. for Lucia di Lammermoor and Hamlet; to New York for Madame Butterfly; to Bordeaux for Carmen; to Hawaii for The Marriage of Figaro; to Long Beach, California for Nixon in China; to Japan for Salome at the Saito Kinen Festival; and to Oviedo (Spain) for Tosca, plus recitals and master classes across the country.  Carter too has seen the inside of many airports in the last few years: Chicago and Boston for Macbeth; San Diego for Cavalleria Rusticana and Rusalka; Bremen (Germany) for Turandot; Knoxville for La forza del destino; Dusseldorf for Die Walküre; and Washington D.C. for Götterdämmerung, to cite a few.

Welcome back, Carter and Michael!  We look forward to more of your searing chemistry!