Name: Tosca
Start: 2022-10-04T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-04-15T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Metropolitan Opera House

Organization

Sopran

Liudmyla Monastyrska

Tosca

Baryton

Patrick Carfizzi

Zakrystian

Reżyseria światła

David Finn

Kostiumy

John Macfarlane

Scenografia

Reżyseria

David McVicar

Dyrygent

Carlo Rizzi

Aleksandra Kurzak

Domingo Hindoyan

Choreografia

Leah Hausman

Angela Gheorghiu

Tenor

Michael Fabiano

Cavaradossi

Roberto Alagna

Željko Lučić

Scarpia

Luca Salsi

George Gagnidze

Matthew Polenzani

Kevin Short

Cesare Angelotti

Rodell Rosel

Spoletta

Brenton Ryan

Christopher Job

Sciarrone

Paul Corona

Strażnik

The Metropolitan Opera

Orchestra

Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

włoski

Nowy Jork

Stany Zjednoczone

Metropolitan Opera House

Tosca Puccini

Public

angielski

niemiecki

hiszpański

Approved

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Puccini’s Tosca: Death is But a Dream (Aria Code)

Sparks are sure to fly as some of opera’s most electrifying artists light up Puccini’s classic thriller. Sopranos Aleksandra Kurzak, Angela Gheorghiu, and Hibla Gerzmava take on the title role of the desperate diva, opposite tenors Michael Fabiano, Roberto Alagna, and Yusif Eyvazov as the ardent painter-revolutionary Cavaradossi. Baritone John Lundgren makes his Met debut as the merciless Baron Scarpia, sharing the role with James Morris and Željko Lučić, who reprises his acclaimed portrayal. Carlo Rizzi and Domingo Hindoyan take the podium for David McVicar’s spectacular production.

World premiere: Teatro Costanzi, Rome, 1900. 
Puccini’s melodrama about a volatile diva, a sadistic police chief, and an idealistic artist has offended and thrilled audiences for more than a century. Critics, for their part, have often had problems with Tosca’s rather grungy subject matter, the directness and intensity of its score, and the crowd-pleasing dramatic opportunities it provides for its lead roles. But these same aspects have made Tosca one of a handful of iconic works that seem to represent opera in the public imagination. Tosca’s popularity is further secured by a superb and exhilarating dramatic sweep, a driving score of abundant melody and theatrical shrewdness, and a career-defining title role.

Creators
Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924) was immensely popular in his own lifetime, and his mature works remain staples in the repertory of most of the world’s opera companies. His operas are celebrated for their mastery of detail, sensitivity to everyday subjects, copious melody, and economy of expression. Puccini’s librettists for Tosca, Giuseppe Giacosa (1847–1906) and Luigi Illica (1857–1919), also collaborated with him on his two other most enduringly successful operas, La Bohème and Madama Butterfly. Giacosa, a dramatist, was responsible for the stories, and Illica, a poet, worked primarily on the words themselves.

Setting
No opera is more tied to its setting than Tosca, which takes place in Rome on the morning of June 17, 1800, through dawn the following day. The specified settings for each of the three acts—the Church of Sant’Andrea della Valle, Palazzo Farnese, and Castel Sant’Angelo—are familiar monuments in the city and can still be visited today. While the libretto takes some liberties with the facts, historical issues form a basis for the opera: The people of Rome are awaiting news of the Battle of Marengo in northern Italy, which will decide the fate of their symbolically powerful city.

Music
The score of Tosca (if not the drama) itself is considered a prime example of the style of verismo, an elusive term usually translated as “realism.” The typical musical features of the verismo tradition are prominent in Tosca: short arias with an uninhibited flood of raw melody, ambient sounds that blur the distinctions between life and art, and the use of parlato—words spoken instead of sung—at moments of tension.

English

Tosca by Puccini, od (2022/2023), W reżyserii David McVicar,, Dyrygent Carlo Rizzi, Domingo Hindoyan, Metropolitan Opera House, Nowy Jork, Stany Zjednoczone

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