Tosca - Opera - Season 18/19 Programming - Opéra national de Paris

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Opéra Bastille - from 16 May to 23 June 2019

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Opera Giacomo Puccini

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Opéra Bastille - from 16 May to 23 June 2019

3h00 with 2 intervals

Language : Italian

Surtitle : French / English

Opening night : 16 May 2019

Tosca

Melodramma in three acts (1900)

Music :

Giacomo Puccini

Libretto :

Giuseppe Giacosa

Luigi Illica

Conductor :

Dan Ettinger

Director :

Pierre Audi

Set design :

Christof Hetzer

Costume design :

Robby Duiveman

Lighting design :

Jean Kalman

Dramaturgy :

Klaus Bertisch

Chorus master :

José Luis Basso
Orchestre et Chœurs de l'Opéra national de Paris
Maîtrise des Hauts-de-Seine/Chœur d'enfants de l'Opéra national de Paris
Floria Tosca :

Anja Harteros

16 > 25 may

Martina Serafin

29 may, 8 > 23 june

Sonya Yoncheva

1, 5 june

Mario Cavaradossi :

Jonas Kaufmann

16 may > 5 june

Marcelo Puente

8 > 23 june

Il Barone Scarpia :

Željko Lučić

16 > 25 may

Luca Salsi

29 may > 23 june

Cesare Angelotti :

Krzysztof Baczyk

Il Sagrestano :

Nicolas Cavallier

Spoletta :

Rodolphe Briand

Sciarrone :

Igor Gnidii

Un carceriere :

Christian Rodrigue Moungoungou

About

In few words:

A Pasolinian landscape over which hovers the overwhelming image of a cross, symbol of the collusion between political and religious oppression: Pierre Audi’s reading divests the work of its ceremonial dress and strips bare its perfectly regulated tragic mechanism, the cogwheels of its drama which, from the raising of the curtain to the tragic downfall, operate with pitiless efficiency. With its transition from theatre to opera, Sardou’s play becomes the very symbol of operatic art. Is that because Tosca portrays a prima donna whosejealousy has weighty consequences for the destiny of her lover? The music overflows the drama to reveal the sensuality of its immortal heroine.