Organization

Set designer

Rufus Didwiszus

Costume designer

Klaus Bruns

Lighting designer

Franck Evin

Singer

Bass

Alexander de Jong

A jailer

Martijn Sanders

Cesare Angelotti

Tenor

Lucas van Lierop

Spoletta

Soprano

Malin Byström

Floria Tosca

Joshua Guerrero

Mario Cavaradossi

Baritone

Gevorg Hakobyan

Baron Scarpia

Stage director

Barrie Kosky

Conductor

Lorenzo Viotti

Mikeldi Atxalandabaso

Maksym Nazarenko

Sciarrone

Enric Martínez-Castignani

The sacristan

Federico De Michelis

Chorus master

Klaas-Jan de Groot

Anaïs de la Morandais

De Nationale Opera

Others

Chorus of Dutch National Opera

Orchestra

Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest

New Amsterdam Children's Choir

Taljan

Tosca

Amsterdam

Netherlands

Dutch National Opera & Ballet

Theaterzaal

Based on Victorien Sardou’s eponymous melodrama, Puccini’s Tosca has remained an operatic favorite since its premiere in Rome in 1900. It narrates the last 24 hours of Floria Tosca, a devout opera diva and lover of painter Cavaradossi, arrested for his revolutionary sympathies. To save him, Tosca agrees to sleep with the infamous Roman police chef Scarpia, but stabs him before the act. Yet despite everything, Cavaradossi is executed. Tosca, dejected, throws herself over the parapet of the Castel Sant'Angelo.

The most Wagnerian of Puccini’s operas, due to the extensive use of leitmotiv, Tosca exhibits magnificent musical innovation and exuberance, with an intense dramatic atmosphere that adapts to the multiple twists and turns in the plot. In this Dutch National Opera production by Barrie Koskie, the three formidable main characters are played by Malin Byström, Joshua Guerrero, and Gevorg Hakobyan, with young maestro Lorenzo Viotti conducting the timeless score.

Tosca Puccini

Public

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