Name: Tosca
Start: 2024-02-05T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-02-24T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Royal Opera House

Organization

Stage director

Jonathan Kent

Set designer

Paul Brown

Costume designer

Lighting designer

Mark Henderson

Baritone

Gabriele Viviani

Baron Scarpia

Conductor

Karen Kamensek

Soprano

Ausrine Stundyte

Floria Tosca

Tenor

Marcelo Puente

Mario Cavaradossi

Bass

Grisha Martirosyan

Cesare Angelotti

Henry Waddington

The sacristan

Jamie Woollard

Sciarrone

Royal Opera House

Orchestra

Orchestra of the Royal Opera House

Others

Royal Opera Chorus

Didier Pieri

Spoletta

Child vocalist

Madeleine McGhee

A shepherd

Olle Zetterström

A jailer

Chorus master

William Spaulding

Italian

Tosca

London

United Kingdom

Main Stage

Tosca Puccini

Public

English

Approved

Set in Rome, 1800, Puccini's sweeping operatic thriller combines romance, Revolution, and a devastating twist. Tosca returns to the Royal Opera House Main St...

From Sardou's play to Puccini’s opera 

From the early 1890s Giacomo Puccini had toyed with adapting French playwright Victorien Sardou’s gripping melodrama  La Tosca into an opera, but only began serious work following the premiere of the critically acclaimed La bohème in 1896. Employing La bohème's gifted librettists Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica to streamline Sardou's complicated plot, Puccini’s Tosca premiered in 1900.  

With the city gripped by political unrest, fears of violence plagued the premiere at Rome’s Teatro Costanzi. However, Tosca  opened without incident, and although unpopular with critics who disliked its violence, it became an immediate success with the public and has remained a favourite ever since. 

Beauty and Bloodshed  

Jonathan Kent’s classic staging conjures all the beauty and bloodshed of 19th-century Rome, while the emotive music of Tosca’s score (featuring Cavaradossi’s aria, ‘Recondita armonia’ and Tosca’s poignant lament, ‘Vissi d’arte’), transports us inside the conflicted souls of its characters.  

Karen Kamensek and Alexander Soddy conduct this classic production, starring Ausrine Stundyte (also debuting), Marcelo Puente and Gabriele Viviani and Angel Blue, Sonya Yoncheva, Russell Thomas, Yusif Eyvazov, Ludovic Tézier and Ildar Abdrazakov.

Tosca by Puccini, From (2024/2024), Directed by Jonathan Kent,, Conductor Karen Kamensek, Royal Opera House, London, United Kingdom

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