Name: Tosca
Start: 2022-04-12T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-05-08T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Dutch National Opera & Ballet

Organization

Set designer

Rufus Didwiszus

Costume designer

Klaus Bruns

Lighting designer

Franck Evin

Singer

Bass

Alexander de Jong

A jailer

Martijn Sanders

Cesare Angelotti

Tenor

Lucas van Lierop

Spoletta

Soprano

Malin Byström

Floria Tosca

Joshua Guerrero

Mario Cavaradossi

Baritone

Gevorg Hakobyan

Baron Scarpia

Stage director

Barrie Kosky

Conductor

Lorenzo Viotti

Mikeldi Atxalandabaso

Maksym Nazarenko

Sciarrone

Enric Martínez-Castignani

The sacristan

Federico De Michelis

Chorus master

Klaas-Jan de Groot

Anaïs de la Morandais

De Nationale Opera

Others

Chorus of Dutch National Opera

Orchestra

Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest

New Amsterdam Children's Choir

Italian

Tosca

Amsterdam

Netherlands

Dutch National Opera & Ballet

Theaterzaal

Based on Victorien Sardou’s eponymous melodrama, Puccini’s Tosca has remained an operatic favorite since its premiere in Rome in 1900. It narrates the last 24 hours of Floria Tosca, a devout opera diva and lover of painter Cavaradossi, arrested for his revolutionary sympathies. To save him, Tosca agrees to sleep with the infamous Roman police chef Scarpia, but stabs him before the act. Yet despite everything, Cavaradossi is executed. Tosca, dejected, throws herself over the parapet of the Castel Sant'Angelo.

The most Wagnerian of Puccini’s operas, due to the extensive use of leitmotiv, Tosca exhibits magnificent musical innovation and exuberance, with an intense dramatic atmosphere that adapts to the multiple twists and turns in the plot. In this Dutch National Opera production by Barrie Koskie, the three formidable main characters are played by Malin Byström, Joshua Guerrero, and Gevorg Hakobyan, with young maestro Lorenzo Viotti conducting the timeless score.

Tosca Puccini

Public

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Directing Tosca is a great pleasure for the Australian-German director Barrie Kosky — it was the first opera he fell deeply in love with as a boy. Under his direction, the darker sides of the opera come to the fore. Don’t expect any glamorous Roman churches, rustling velvet or sparkling pearl necklaces. Kosky concentrates solely on the psychological drama and its bloody ending. Chief conductor Lorenzo Viotti, who is a keen Puccini enthusiast, delivers a musically ‘sugar-free’ Tosca. He shakes off the traditions of interpretation and approaches the score with a fresh outlook. Viotti leads ‘his’ Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, the Chorus of Dutch National Opera and prominent soloists.

Following her sensational Salome in 2017, Swedish soprano Malin Byström returns to DNO to perform the title role in Tosca. The Mexican-American tenor Joshua Guerrero, a specialist in the Italian repertoire, guarantees a fiery interpretation of the passionate artist Mario Cavaradossi, and Armenian baritone Gevorg Hakobyan promises to deliver an energetic, yet terrifying Scarpia.

English

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