Name: Tosca
Start: 2024-11-26T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-12-13T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Royal Opera House

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Royal Opera House

Regia

Jonathan Kent

Scenografia

Paul Brown

Costumi

Luci

Mark Henderson

Direzione d'orchestra

Eun Sun Kim

Soprano

Sonya Yoncheva

Floria Tosca

Tenore

SeokJong Baek

Mario Cavaradossi

Baritono

Bryn Terfel

Il barone Scarpia

Aled Hall

Spoletta

Basso

Ossian Huskinson

Cesare Angelotti

Maurizio Muraro

Il sagrestano

Jamie Woollard

Sciarrone

Orchestra

Orchestra of the Royal Opera House

Others

Chorus of the Royal Opera House

Direzione del coro

William Spaulding

italiano

Tosca

Londra

Regno Unito

Main Stage

Public

Rahul Solomon

inglese

Approvato

In her much-anticipated debut with The Royal Opera, conductor Eun Sun Kim leads Jonathan Kent’s ‘handsome period staging’ (Guardian) for the 2024/25 Season. Sonya Yoncheva makes a welcome return in the passionate title role of Puccini’s sweeping opera, alongside SeokJong Baek as Cavaradossi and Bryn Terfel as Scarpia.

FROM SARDOU'S PLAY TO PUCCINI’S OPERA 
From the early 1890s Giacomo Puccini had toyed with adapting French playwright Victorien Sardou’s gripping melodrama La Tosca into an opera, but only began serious work following the premiere of the critically acclaimed La bohème in 1896. Employing La bohème's gifted librettists Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica to streamline Sardou's complicated plot, Puccini’s Tosca premiered in 1900.   

With the city gripped by political unrest, fears of violence plagued the premiere at Rome’s Teatro Costanzi. However, Tosca opened without incident, and although unpopular with critics who disliked its violence, it became an immediate success with the public and has remained a favourite ever since. 

CHARACTER-PAINTING THROUGH MUSIC
Puccini portrays the idealism of Tosca and her lover Cavaradossi through radiant, expansive music, including Act I's duet 'Qual occhio al mondo' (What eyes of this world), Cavaradossi's ardent aria 'Recondita armonia' (Hidden harmony) and Tosca's despairing Act II prayer 'Vissi d'arte' (I lived for my art). Scarpia's music, by contrast, is dark and terrifying – from the demonic chords that open the opera to the violence of his Act II exchanges with Tosca.

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