Tosca by Puccini, ned. 26 sep. 2021, Od (2021/2022), Režija: Willy Decker,, Dirigent Killian Farrell, Opernhaus, Stuttgart, Germany

While La Bohème consists only of poetry and not of action, it is said that with Tosca it is the other way around: only action, no poetry. Even the librettist Giuseppe Giacosa found Sardou's original completely unsuitable for an opera. "What prompted Puccini to deal with such a real and brutal subject, the actors of which are little more than puppets entangled in a highly intelligent, cleverly designed plot?" Asked the music critic Mosco Carner. Maybe just that? Puccini's tense sex-and-crime masterpiece became an absolute core piece of opera literature - and Willy Decker's staging classics have been a long-running repertoire at the Stuttgart State Opera for over 20 years.