Tosca by Puccini, ma. 04 jun 2018, Van (2018/2018), Geregisseerd door Martin Bendik,, Dirigent Rastislav Stur, Martin Leginus, Slovak National Theatre New Building, Bratislava, Slowakije

Giacomo Puccini is an author who portrays the cruel world of violence, hatred and selfish passions, as well as the world of love "beyond the grave" with extraordinary dramaturgical sophistication. His world is not a world of great politics or romantic ideals of human liberation. It is a world of psychological miniature drawing, a complex world of interrelationships between small and large human stories. In the opera Toscasinger star Floria Tosca falls into the hands of the sadistic secret police chief Baron Scarpi due to unfavorable circumstances. He demands the maximum price for the release of her lover, the painter Cavaradossi - her honor. Puccini depicts this tense dramatic conflict in a captivating musical language that has won the hearts of audiences around the world with its emotionality and melodic beauty for more than a hundred years. Even today, his work is still current, exciting and provocative for both sides of the theater space, the stage and the perspective on new meetings.