Tosca

John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Roger L. Stevens, chairman, Martin Feinstein, executive director, the Kennedy Center presents the American premiere engagement Berlin Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, "Tosca," in Italian, music by Giacomo Puccini, by arrangement with G. Ricordi & Co., Munich, opera in three acts, libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica after the play by Victorien Sardou, conducted by Lorin Maazel, directed by Boleslaw Barlog, scenery and costumes by Filippo Sanjust, chorus master: Walter Hagen-Groll, boy's choir: Choir of St. Paul's School and Old St. Paul's Church, Baltimore, Md., Rodney Hansen, choirmaster.