Organization

Conductor

Motonori Kobayashi

Singer

Soprano

Inga Kalna

Floria Tosca

Tenor

James Lee

Mario Cavaradossi

Baritone

Noel Bouley

Baron Scarpia

Bass

Morgan Moody

Cesare Angelotti

Fritz Steinbacher

Spoletta

Denis Velev

A jailer

Stage director

Nicholas Habjan

Gabriel Feltz

Costume designer

Denise Heschl

Set designer

Heike Vollmer

Dramaturge

Laura Knoll

Chorus master

Fabio Mancini

Stéphanie Müther

Gabriela Scherer

Mandla Mndebele

Michael Volle

The sacristan

Yevhen Rakhmanin

Timothy Edlin

Demian Matushevskyi

Blazej Grek

Carl Kaiser

Sciarrone

Video designer

Kai Ehlers

Lighting designer

Florian Franzen

Stage Design Assistant

Emine Güner

Studies management

Thomas Hannig

Production Management

Fabian Schäfer

Assistant Director

Dominik Kastl

Stage Manager

Ulas Nagler

Alexander Becker

Theater Dortmund

Others

Choir Academy Dortmund

Orchestra

Dortmunder Philharmoniker

Opernchor Theater Dortmund

Kinderstatisterie Theater Dortmund

Italian

Tosca

Dortmund

Germany

Konzerthaus Dortmund

Opernhaus Dortmund

Opernhaus

Tosca Puccini

Public

Private

German

Approved

ToscaMelodramma in drei Akten von Giacomo Puccini • Libretto von Giuseppe Giacosa und Luigi Illica • nach dem Drama La Tosca (1887) von Victorien Sardou • In...

Tosca – Oper Dortmund

A passionate femme fatale, an activist artist and an unscrupulous police chief - paired with Puccini's poignant music they result in a gripping opera thriller of superlatives. Because the painter Cavaradossi helped the politically persecuted Angelotti to escape, he himself moved into the focus of state power. Scarpia uses Cavaradossi's lover to find out the whereabouts of the escaped man. It is the famous singer Tosca that the police chief himself desires. He forces her to listen to the screams of her tortured husband and her steadfastness is broken. Scarpia offers Tosca Cavaradossi's pardon in exchange for her body. She agrees and receives a permit, but before the police chief can approach her, she stabs him. Only Cavaradossi's sham execution still stands in the way of the common future.

The plot, which is compressed to the essentials, creates a soothing tension that relies on an almost cinematic density. The fusion of traditional and around 1900 very modern compositional elements together with the velvety-shimmering orchestration creates a very special sound-gothic. The voices and their melodies are in the foreground and create a refined figure psychology through their physical expressiveness. Intense, moving and exciting right up to the last second, the historical detective piece with a dense musical network offers everything you would expect from a great Italian opera. In-house director Nikolaus Habjan stages a modern psychological thriller with great love for the work, creating an unforgettable evening at the opera.

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Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Crew

Ensemble