Opéra de Monte-Carlo | Tosca by Giacomo Puccini

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Opera in three acts
Music by Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)
Libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa after the play La Tosca by Victorien Sardou
Premiere: Rome, Teatro Costanzi, January 14, 1900

Puccini Centenary Festival

Giacomo Puccini died in Brussels one hundred years ago, in November 1924. Opéra de Monte-Carlo pays tribute to him with this prestigious concert version featuring Maria José Siri, Roberto Alagna and Luca Salsi. Although Tosca and La bohème were written by the same composer and librettists, we can't help but be amazed by the gulf between their worlds and temperaments - the two scores had equally painful and contemporary gestations, even though La bohème was in the limelight four years earlier.

La bohème, set in Paris, is a deeply lyrical work, with a healthy dose of humor and romanticism. In Tosca, on the other hand, we witness the passionate confrontations between three almost superhuman personalities. Set against a political backdrop and in dark stone buildings in the heart of Rome, this bloody intrigue of love, sex and violence unfolds before our eyes with a dramatic force that keeps us gripped until the final twist: an execution that was supposed to be faked but turns out to be real, and the prima donna's famous leap into the void as she plunges from the terrace of Castel Sant'Angelo...

Artists

Musical Direction | Marco Armiliato

Chorus conductor Stefano Visconti

Floria Tosca | Maria José Siri

Mario Cavaradossi | Roberto Alagna

Baron Scarpia | Luca Salsi

A Sacristan | Giovanni Romeo

Cesare Angelotti | Giorgi Manoshvili

Spoletta | Reinaldo Macias

Sciarrone | Paolo Marchini

Jailer | Fabio Bonavita

Shepherd Galia Bakalov

Lead singer | Kira Parfeevets

Choir of the Opéra de Monte-Carlo

Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo

Children's choir of the Academie Rainier III