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Tosca
Opéra Bastille
19h30
Dress Cocktail attire
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.
Tosca
Production de 1982 - Pierre Audi
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Music
Giacomo Puccini
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ConductorGustavo Dudamel
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ConductorPaolo Bortolameolli
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Libretto
Giuseppe Giacosa
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Libretto
Luigi Illica
D'après Victorien Sardou -
Director
Pierre Audi
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Set design
Christof Hetzer
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Costume design
Robby Duiveman
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Lighting design
Jean Kalman
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Dramaturgy
Klaus Bertisch
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Chorus master
Alessandro Di Stefano
Cast
Stikhina
Floria Tosca
Calleja
Mario Cavaradossi
Burdenko
Il Barone Scarpia
Vemić
Cesare Angelotti
Colvin
Spoletta
Girolami
Il Sagrestano
Rouillon
Sciarrone
Moungoungou
Un carceriere
Orchestre et Chœurs de l'Opéra national de Paris
Maîtrise des Hauts-de-Seine/Chœur d'enfants de l'Opéra national de Paris