Photo © Svetlana Loboff / OnP
Photo © Svetlana Loboff / OnP
Tosca
Opéra Bastille - from 06 May to 25 June 2021
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Tosca
Opera Giacomo Puccini
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Opéra Bastille - from 06 May to 25 June 2021
2h55 with 2 intervals
Language : Italian
Surtitle : French / English
About
In few words:
Based on the eponymous play by Victorien Sardou, Puccini’s opera brings together all the elements of a melodrama: love, politics, violence and religion. Set against the backdrop of the struggle for Italian independence, Tosca is a tragic tale of thwarted love between a passionate, jealous and impulsive singer and a romantic, idealistic painter who champions civil liberties. In a period unsettled by the Battle of Marengo, which pits Napoléon Bonaparte’s French republican army against the Imperial army of the Holy Roman Empire, the terrible and manipulative chief of police Scarpia bargains with the singer: In exchange for spending one night alone with him, he will free her lover Mario. In order to escape his grasp, she murders him. However he will exact his revenge from beyond the grave.
In a landscape reminiscent of Pasolini, the crushing shadow of a cross hovers above everyone, representing colluding political and religious oppression. Through the ubiquitous presence of religious references in both private and public spaces alike, director Pierre Audi’s interpretation skilfully sets out the dramatic lines of the narrative.
Tosca
Melodramma in three acts (1900)
After Victorien Sardou
Music :
Libretto :
Giuseppe Giacosa
Luigi Illica - D'après Victorien Sardou
Director :
Set design :
Costume design :
Lighting design :
Dramaturgy :
Chorus master :
Floria Tosca :
(May)
(June)
Mario Cavaradossi :
(May)
(June)
Il Barone Scarpia :
(May)
(June)
Cesare Angelotti :
Il Sagrestano :
Frédéric Caton
Spoletta :
Sciarrone :
Un carceriere :
Performances
Available in audiodescription
Advantages
Full
Available in audiodescription
Advantages
Full
Gallery
Audio clips
Tosca (saison 18.19) - Acte I - Zeljko Lucic Et Choeurs
Tosca (saison 18.19)- Acte II - Martina Serafin, Zeljko Lucic
Tosca (saison 18.19)- Acte II - Martina Serafin
Tosca (saison 18.19) - Acte III - Marcelo Puente
About the work
Draw-me Tosca
By Octave
Tosca’s Cross
An analysis of Tosca
By Simon Hatab
Beyond the experience
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