Name: Tosca
Start: 2024-02-05T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-02-24T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Royal Opera House

Organization

Mise en scène

Jonathan Kent

Décors

Paul Brown

Costumes

Lumières

Mark Henderson

Baryton

Gabriele Viviani

Le Baron Scarpia

Direction d'orchestre

Karen Kamensek

Soprano

Ausrine Stundyte

Floria Tosca

Ténor

Marcelo Puente

Μario Cavaradossi

Basse

Grisha Martirosyan

Cesare Angelotti

Henry Waddington

Le Sacristain

Jamie Woollard

Sciarrone

Royal Opera House

Orchestra

Orchestra of the Royal Opera House

Others

Chorus of the Royal Opera House

Didier Pieri

Spoletta

Voix d'enfant

Madeleine McGhee

Un berger

Olle Zetterström

Un geôlier

Direction de choeur

William Spaulding

italien

Tosca

Londres

Royaume-Uni

Main Stage

Tosca Puccini

Public

anglais

Valide

Set in Rome, 1800, Puccini's sweeping operatic thriller combines romance, Revolution, and a devastating twist. Tosca returns to the Royal Opera House Main St...

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. 

Beauty and Bloodshed  

Jonathan Kent’s classic staging conjures all the beauty and bloodshed of 19th-century Rome, while the emotive music of Tosca’s score (featuring Cavaradossi’s aria, ‘Recondita armonia’ and Tosca’s poignant lament, ‘Vissi d’arte’), transports us inside the conflicted souls of its characters.  

Karen Kamensek and Alexander Soddy conduct this classic production, starring Ausrine Stundyte (also debuting), Marcelo Puente and Gabriele Viviani and Angel Blue, Sonya Yoncheva, Russell Thomas, Yusif Eyvazov, Ludovic Tézier and Ildar Abdrazakov.

English

Tosca by Puccini, lun. 19 févr. 2024, Du (2024/2024), Dirigé par Jonathan Kent,, Chef d'orchestre Karen Kamensek, Royal Opera House, Londres, Royaume-Uni

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