Organization

DomStufen-Festspiele

Singer

Soprano

Kelly God

Floria Tosca

Elena Stikhina

Tenor

Andrea Shin

Mario Cavaradossi

Thomas Paul

Baritone

Juri Batukov

Baron Scarpia

Andriy Maslakov

Gregor Loebel

The sacristan

Lukas Schmid-Wedekind

Vazgen Gazaryan

Jörg Rathmann

Spoletta

Alexander Voigt

Bass

Siyabulela Ntlale

Cesare Angelotti

Máté Sólyom-Nagy

Conductor

Joana Mallwitz

Stage director

Jakob Peters-Messer

Set designer

Hank Irwin Kittel

Theater Erfurt

Italian

Tosca

Erfurt

Germany

Domstufen

Tosca Puccini

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Puccini's fifth opera focuses on the tragic love affair between the singer Floria Tosca and her lover, the painter Mario Cavaradossi. The two help the politically persecuted Cesare Angelotti to escape and thus fall into the clutches of the notorious police chief Scarpia. From this constellation, a gripping drama about love and betrayal, state and church, murder and suicide develops against the historical background of the Napoleonic wars.

"I'm thinking of Tosca . I implore you to take the necessary steps to obtain Sardou's permission,” wrote Giacomo Puccini in 1899 to friend and publisher Giulio Ricordi. "Because in this Tosca I see the opera that is tailor-made for me." Puccini had seen the play La Tosca (1887) by Victorien Sardou with the legendary Sarah Bernhardt in the title role and was fascinated by the material. Puccini and his librettists Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa worked on the opera version for four years. On January 14, 1900, Puccini's Tosca was performed with great success for the first time in the Teatro Costanzi in Rome.

English

Tosca by Puccini, From (2016/2016), Directed by Jakob Peters-Messer,, Conductor Joana Mallwitz, Domstufen, Erfurt, Germany

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