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Stuttgart Opera

Conductor

Alevtina Loffe

Stage director

Willy Decker

Set designer

Set designer (+2)

Wolfgang Gussmann

Costume designer

Dramaturge

Juliane Votteler

Chorusmaster

Conductor (+2)

Bernhard Moncado

Soprano

Olga Busuioc

Floria Tosca

Tenor

Atalla Ayan

Mario Cavaradossi

Baritone (+3)

Lucio Gallo

Baron Scarpia

Baritone (+4)

Jacobo Ochoa

Cesare Angelotti

Andrew Bogard

The sacristan

Tenor (+3)

Heinz Göhrig

Spoletta

Orchestra

Stuttgart State Orchestra

Opernhaus

Chorus

Chorus of the Stuttgart State Opera

Children's Choir of the Stuttgart Opera

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 considered Sardou's original completely unsuitable for an opera. “What made Puccini come to terms with such a real and dealing with a brutal subject whose actors are little more than puppets entangled in a highly intelligent, cleverly designed plot? ”asked the music critic Mosco Carner. Maybe just that? For over 20 years Willy Decker's classic production of Puccini's Sex and Crime masterpiece has been a repertory perennial.

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