Name: Tosca
Start: 2015-06-04T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2015-06-13T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Open Air

Admin

Organization

Masada Festival

Soprano

Svetla Vassileva

Floria Tosca

Tenor

Gustavo Porta

Mario Cavaradossi

Baritone

Scott Hendricks

Baron Scarpia

Sergey Murzaev

Vladimir Braun

The sacristan

Bass

Carlo Striuli

Cesare Angelotti

Joseph Aridan

Spoletta

Oded Reich

Sciarrone

Noah Briger

A jailer

Child vocalist

Anat Czarny

A shepherd

Conductor

Daniel Oren

Stage director

Nicolas Joël

Costume designer

Katia Duflot

Set designer

Emmanuelle Favre

Israeli Opera

Orchestra

The Israel Symphony Orchestra Rishon LeZion

Others

The Israeli Opera Chorus

Tosca

Masada

Israel

Open Air

Tosca comes alive in the open air of Israel’s Negev Desert, staged at the foot of the towering fortress of Masada. Starring Svetla Vassileva as the title heroine, Gustavo Porta as her beloved Cavaradossi, and Sergey Murzaev as the evil police chief, former Paris Opera Director Nicolas Joel’s 2015 production—captured here in 4K (ultra HD)!—reimagined Puccini’s resplendent opera on a breathtaking scale.

An extravagant diva and her high-minded artist-lover face off against Rome’s power-hungry chief of police and his thugs, with a conquering Napoleonic army coming ever nearer… if any literary tale was made for opera, it is Victorien Sardou’s 1887 melodrama La Tosca! After seeing the play on its Italian tour, Puccini decided to turn the work into an opera, enlisting the help of librettists Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. The masterpiece they produced together received an initially lukewarm reaction from music critics: a bad premiere performance and the shocking verismo plot did not help. But audiences proved captivated by the opera's dramatic force, and ultimately assured Tosca’s place in the public imagination as one of the most emblematic works of the operatic genre.

Tosca Puccini

Public

Private

English

French

Approved

Instrumentalist

Pianist

Violinist

Cellist

Violist

Flutist

Clarinetist

Guitarist

Organist

Percussionist

hornist

Oboist

Bassoonist

Trumpeter

Contrabassist

Trombonist

Harper

Saxophonist

Harpsichordist

Accordionist

Bassist

Tuba Player

Recorder Player

Lutenist

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Mandoline Player

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Violino Piccolo Player

Viola da gamba

Musette de cour Player

Viola Pomposa Player

Archlutenist

Vibraphonist

Cornettist

Viola d’amore Player

Theorbist

Composer

Librettist

Choreographer

Lighting designer

Dancer

Actor

Chorus master

Video designer

Dramaturge

Translator

Sound designer

Repetiteur

Makeup artist

Executive producer

Hairstylist

Other

Stage Manager

Choir

Poet

Vocal coach

Teacher

Photographer

Broadcasting

Writer

Writing and performance

Chorus Director

Wig & Makeup Designer

Orchestra Operations

Illustrator

Extra

Singer

Countertenor

Contralto

Bass-baritone

Mezzo-soprano

Spoken

Silent

Alto

Continuo

Tosca by Puccini, Sat 06 Jun 2015, From (2015/2015), Directed by Nicolas Joël,, Conductor Daniel Oren, Open Air, Masada, Israel

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