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Tosca (2004)

Giacomo Puccini
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Opera
2h 14 min
Italian
FULL HD
Spanish , English
Production

A magnificent production by Nuria Espert, in which Daniela Dessí plays Puccini’s heroine, with Fabio Armiliato as Cavaradossi and Ruggero Raimondi as the villainous Scarpia.

 

A newspaper once asked, in reference to Rinaldo, why anti-heroes were so fascinating to audiences. We might ask the same about Scarpia, who thrills opera fans the world over when he sings “Più forte! Più forte!” while he tortures Cavaradossi. Or when we hear Tosca sing beside his corpse, “E avanti a lui tremava tutta Roma!”, we feel she could have loved this villain had she not met her painter. But Tosca lives for art and love, so she tells Cavaradossi to give his painting of Mary Magdalene black eyes. She also wants the Virgin as witness when she kisses her lover. It’s hard to imagine a more assured tearjerker than in these scenes by Sardou, accompanied by the sweeping score of the great Giacomo Puccini.

Melodramma in three acts

 

Music by Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)

Libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, based on the theatre play La Tosca by Victorien Sardou

Premiered at the Teatro Costanzi, Rome, on January 14, 1900

Production of the Teatro Real in coproduction with the Asociación Bilbaína de Amigos de la Ópera

Principal Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Real

 

Artistic team


Conductor | Maurizio Benini

Stage director | Nuria Espert

Set designer | Ezio Frigerio

Costume designer | Franca Squarciapino

Lighting designer | Vinicio Cheli

Chorus master | Martin Merry

 

Cast


Floria Tosca | Daniela Dessì

Mario Cavaradossi | Fabio Armiliato

Baron Scarpia | Ruggero Raimondi

Cesare Angelotti | Marco Spotti

Sacristan | Miguel Sola

Spoletta | Emilio Sánchez

Sciarrone | Josep Miquel Ribot

Jailer | Francisco Santiago

Shepherd | Eliana Bayón

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