Name: Tosca
Start: 2014-03-08T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2014-03-25T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Gran Teatre del Liceu

Organization

Soprano

Sondra Radvanovsky

Floria Tosca

Martina Serafin

Fiorenza Cedolins

Tenor

Jorge de León

Mario Cavaradossi

Baritone

Ambrogio Maestri

Baron Scarpia

Vittorio Vitelli

Bass

Vladimir Baykov

Cesare Angelotti

Alessandro Guerzoni

Valeriano Lanchas

The sacristan

Francisco Vas

Spoletta

José Manuel Zapata

Manel Esteve Madrid

Sciarrone

Child vocalist

Elena Copons

A shepherd

Conductor

Paolo Carignani

Stage director

Paco Azorín

Set designer

Costume designer

Isidre Prunés

Lighting designer

Pascal Mérat

Riccardo Massi

Gran Teatre del Liceu

Tosca

Barcelona

Spain

Sala Miralls

Public

Approved

Three is a number of special relevance to Tosca: three settings in Rome in the year 1800, three main characters (Tosca, Cavaradossi and Scarpia), and the three rules of classical drama – action, place and time – which, surprisingly, still underlie this work from the dawn of the 20th century. Paco Azorín chooses to apply the number three to yet another dimension and his production – dominated by a huge, strikingly realistic altarpiece – spans three centuries: the period of the action, that of the premiere, and that of the present audience. Thus there are three levels of interpretation, one for each act, and his Tosca starts off as a work of realism, evolves into the sphere of symbolism, and concludes with a metaphorical vision of this tale of passions. For every passion that is part of contradictory human nature – from love to power lust – finds its place in the three settings and each is expressed with forcefulness and violence.

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Crew