de Giacomo Puccini
One of the most representative works of Italian verismo, Tosca marked Puccini’s undisputed recognition as the greatest opera composer of his times and as Verdi’s natural heir to the leadership of the Italian school.
Tosca is an opera of uncontrollable passions, jealousy, vengeance, hate and suicidal love set in the historical context of the Europe of the year 1800, during the Napoleonic invasion of Italy. The plot revolves around the heroine, the singer Floria Tosca, who is forced to deal with the corrupt and lecherous Baron Scarpia, chief of the Roman police, to save her loved one, the painter with revolutionary ideas Mario Cavaradossi. An opera denouncing the political conspiracy and the control that the authorities seek to exercise on art.
This opera offers a mixture of politics and love, with the impressive aria Vissi d’arte, in which Tosca reflects on her virtue in the midst of the tragic events… All told, an authentic melodrama of political rivalries and passions with a very dramatic ending.
TOSCA
Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)
29/11/2024 – 07/12/2024
Opera in three acts (Surtitled in Catalan).
Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica, based on the play La Tosca by Victorien Sardou.
This opera premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 14 January 1900. Its debut in Catalonia was at the Gran Teatre del Liceu on 30 March 1902.
Approximate running time: 2 h 50 min
Act 1: 50 min.
Interval 20 min.
Act 2: 50 min.
Interval 20 min.
Act 3: 30 min.
PERFORMANCES
Carmen Solís
Floria Tosca
Enrique Ferrer
Mario Cavaradossi
Luís Cansino / Manuel Mas
Baró Scarpia
Juan Carlos Esteve
Cesare Angelotti
Pau Armengol
Sagristà
Jorge Juan Morata
Spoletta
Laura Obradors
Un pastor
Quim Cornet
Sciarrone
Lluís Vergés
Carceller
ARTISTIC FILE
Musical direction | Sergi Roca Bru | Surtitle adaptation | Glòria Nogué |
Stage direction and set design | Carles Ortiz | Stage manager | Jordi Galobart |
Assistant stage direction | Jaume Sangrà | Machinery and set construction | RB Creacions 1990, S.L. (Raül Vilasis i Berta Vidal) |
Disseny d’escenografia | Jordi Galobart | Costume production | M. Carmen Muñoz / Eva Selma |
Lighting | Per determinar | Characterisation coordination | Nani Bellmunt |
Costume design | Fundació Òpera a Catalunya | Makeup and hairdressing | Amparo López / Júlia Ramírez / Nerea Fernández |
Assistant musical maestros | Andrea Álvarez / Juli Rodríguez | Production and organisation | Fundació Òpera a Catalunya |
Surtitle translation | Jordi Torrents |
Cor Amics de l’Òpera de Sabadell
Orquestra Simfònica del Vallès