Name: Tosca
Start: 2015-06-04T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2015-06-13T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Open Air

Admin

Organization

Masada Festival

Śpiewak

Sopran

Svetla Vassileva

Tosca

Tenor

Gustavo Porta

Cavaradossi

Baryton

Scott Hendricks

Scarpia

Sergey Murzaev

Vladimir Braun

Zakrystian

Carlo Striuli

Cesare Angelotti

Joseph Aridan

Spoletta

Oded Reich

Sciarrone

Noah Briger

Strażnik

Głos dziecięcy

Anat Czarny

Pasterz

Dyrygent

Daniel Oren

Reżyseria

Nicolas Joël

Kostiumy

Katia Duflot

Scenografia

Emmanuelle Favre

Israeli Opera

Orchestra

The Israel Symphony Orchestra Rishon LeZion

Others

The Israeli Opera Chorus

Masada

Izrael

Open Air

Tosca comes alive in the open air of Israel’s Negev Desert, staged at the foot of the towering fortress of Masada. Starring Svetla Vassileva as the title heroine, Gustavo Porta as her beloved Cavaradossi, and Sergey Murzaev as the evil police chief, former Paris Opera Director Nicolas Joel’s 2015 production—captured here in 4K (ultra HD)!—reimagined Puccini’s resplendent opera on a breathtaking scale.

An extravagant diva and her high-minded artist-lover face off against Rome’s power-hungry chief of police and his thugs, with a conquering Napoleonic army coming ever nearer… if any literary tale was made for opera, it is Victorien Sardou’s 1887 melodrama La Tosca! After seeing the play on its Italian tour, Puccini decided to turn the work into an opera, enlisting the help of librettists Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. The masterpiece they produced together received an initially lukewarm reaction from music critics: a bad premiere performance and the shocking verismo plot did not help. But audiences proved captivated by the opera's dramatic force, and ultimately assured Tosca’s place in the public imagination as one of the most emblematic works of the operatic genre.

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