AROP evening — Opera

Tosca

17 Nov. 2022

  • 2h50 with 2 intermissions
  • Opéra Bastille
  • Cocktail attire

Tosca

Production de 1982 - Pierre Audi

  • Conductor

    Gustavo Dudamel; Paolo Bortolameolli

  • Music

    Giacomo Puccini

  • Libretto

    Giuseppe Giacosa

  • Libretto

    Luigi Illica
    D'après Victorien Sardou

  • Director

    Pierre Audi

  • Set design

    Christof Hetzer

  • Costume design

    Robby Duiveman

  • Lighting design

    Jean Kalman

  • Dramaturgy

    Klaus Bertisch

  • Chorus master

    Alessandro Di Stefano

When Giacomo Puccini saw a performance of Victorien Sardo's play La Tosca, whilst Sarah Bernhardt was touring with it in Milan, he was immediately captivated by the power of the drama. Love, politics, sadism and religion: all these ingredients are brought together in the story of the jealous and impulsive singer Floria Tosca, who is in love with the idealistic Mario Cavaradossi in an Italy fighting for its independence. Eleven years later, in 1900, Puccini’s opera Tosca had its triumphant first performance in Rome. At the summit of his art, the composer struck a powerful note even as the curtain rose with five arresting chords evoking Scarpia, the infamous chief of police, whose desire to possess the diva knows no limits. In Pierre Audi’s production, first performed in 2014 at the Paris Opera, the oppressive shadow of a cross hovers above the stage, symbol of the collision of political and religious tyranny. An interpretation that skilfully deploys the strands of the drama and lays bare its tragic mechanisms.

Orchestre et Chœurs de l'Opéra national de Paris
Maîtrise des Hauts-de-Seine/Chœur d'enfants de l'Opéra national de Paris

Tosca

Production de 1982 - Pierre Audi

  • Floria Tosca

    Elena Stikhina

  • Mario Cavaradossi

    Joseph Calleja

  • Il Barone Scarpia

    Roman Burdenko

  • Cesare Angelotti

    Sava Vemić

  • Spoletta

    Michael Colvin

  • Il Sagrestano

    Renato Girolami

  • Sciarrone

    Philippe Rouillon

  • Un carceriere

    Christian Rodrigue Moungoungou

  • 19:30

    First part

  • 20:15

    Intermission cocktail

  • 20:40

    Second part

  • 21:25

    Intermission cocktail

  • 21:50

    Third part

  • 22:20

    End of the performance

  • 22:35

    Supper

Tosca (saison 22/23) - Acte 2 - Saioa Hernández (Tosca)

1 podcast

TOÏ TOÏ TOÏ I 5 questions sur TOSCA avec ELENA STIKHINA

1 video

[EXTRAIT] TOSCA by Giacomo Puccini, Act I

1 video

[EXTRAIT] TOSCA by Giacomo Puccini, Act I (Saioa Hernández & Bryn Terfel)

1 video

[EXTRAIT] TOSCA by Giacomo Puccini, Act II (Saioa Hernández & Bryn Terfel)

1 video

[EXTRAIT] TOSCA by Giacomo Puccini, Act III (Saioa Hernández)

1 video