Work: ToscaInstrument: Soprano| Date | Event | Composers, Works, Performers |
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| Sunday 26-May-13 02:00pm |
 Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, CATosca |
Los Angeles Opera Plácido Domingo, Conductor John Caird, Director Sondra Radvanovsky, Soprano: Floria Tosca Marco Berti, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi Lado Ataneli, Baritone: Baron Scarpia Joshua Bloom, Bass: Cesare Angelotti |
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| Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, CA, Los Angeles, CA90012, United States Sunday 26-May-13 02:00pm Plácido Domingo, Conductor John Caird, Director Sondra Radvanovsky, Soprano: Floria Tosca Marco Berti, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi Lado Ataneli, Baritone: Baron Scarpia Joshua Bloom, Bass: Cesare Angelotti | ||
| Thursday 30-May-13 07:30pm |
Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, CA Tosca |
Los Angeles Opera Plácido Domingo, Conductor John Caird, Director Sondra Radvanovsky, Soprano: Floria Tosca Marco Berti, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi Lado Ataneli, Baritone: Baron Scarpia Joshua Bloom, Bass: Cesare Angelotti |
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| Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, CA, Los Angeles, CA90012, United States Thursday 30-May-13 07:30pm Plácido Domingo, Conductor John Caird, Director Sondra Radvanovsky, Soprano: Floria Tosca Marco Berti, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi Lado Ataneli, Baritone: Baron Scarpia Joshua Bloom, Bass: Cesare Angelotti | ||
| Sunday 2-Jun-13 02:00pm |
Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, CA Tosca |
Los Angeles Opera Plácido Domingo, Conductor John Caird, Director Sondra Radvanovsky, Soprano: Floria Tosca Marco Berti, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi Lado Ataneli, Baritone: Baron Scarpia Joshua Bloom, Bass: Cesare Angelotti |
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| Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, CA, Los Angeles, CA90012, United States Sunday 2-Jun-13 02:00pm Plácido Domingo, Conductor John Caird, Director Sondra Radvanovsky, Soprano: Floria Tosca Marco Berti, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi Lado Ataneli, Baritone: Baron Scarpia Joshua Bloom, Bass: Cesare Angelotti | ||
| Wednesday 5-Jun-13 07:30pm |
Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, CA Tosca |
Los Angeles Opera Plácido Domingo, Conductor John Caird, Director Sondra Radvanovsky, Soprano: Floria Tosca Marco Berti, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi Lado Ataneli, Baritone: Baron Scarpia Joshua Bloom, Bass: Cesare Angelotti |
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| Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, CA, Los Angeles, CA90012, United States Wednesday 5-Jun-13 07:30pm Plácido Domingo, Conductor John Caird, Director Sondra Radvanovsky, Soprano: Floria Tosca Marco Berti, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi Lado Ataneli, Baritone: Baron Scarpia Joshua Bloom, Bass: Cesare Angelotti | ||
| Thursday 6-Jun-13 |
Staatsoper, Vienna Tosca |
Vienna State Opera Margarethe Wallmann, Director Dan Ettinger, Conductor Martina Serafin, Soprano: Floria Tosca Roberto Alagna, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi Albert Dohmen, Bass-baritone: Baron Scarpia |
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| Staatsoper, Vienna, 1010 Vienna, Austria Thursday 6-Jun-13 Margarethe Wallmann, Director Dan Ettinger, Conductor Martina Serafin, Soprano: Floria Tosca Roberto Alagna, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi Albert Dohmen, Bass-baritone: Baron Scarpia | ||
| Saturday 8-Jun-13 07:30pm |
Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, CA Tosca |
Los Angeles Opera Plácido Domingo, Conductor John Caird, Director Sondra Radvanovsky, Soprano: Floria Tosca Marco Berti, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi Lado Ataneli, Baritone: Baron Scarpia Joshua Bloom, Bass: Cesare Angelotti |
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| Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, CA, Los Angeles, CA90012, United States Saturday 8-Jun-13 07:30pm Plácido Domingo, Conductor John Caird, Director Sondra Radvanovsky, Soprano: Floria Tosca Marco Berti, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi Lado Ataneli, Baritone: Baron Scarpia Joshua Bloom, Bass: Cesare Angelotti | ||
| Sunday 9-Jun-13 |
Staatsoper, Vienna Tosca |
Vienna State Opera Margarethe Wallmann, Director Dan Ettinger, Conductor Martina Serafin, Soprano: Floria Tosca Roberto Alagna, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi Albert Dohmen, Bass-baritone: Baron Scarpia |
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| Staatsoper, Vienna, 1010 Vienna, Austria Sunday 9-Jun-13 Margarethe Wallmann, Director Dan Ettinger, Conductor Martina Serafin, Soprano: Floria Tosca Roberto Alagna, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi Albert Dohmen, Bass-baritone: Baron Scarpia | ||
| Wednesday 12-Jun-13 |
Staatsoper, Vienna Tosca |
Vienna State Opera Margarethe Wallmann, Director Dan Ettinger, Conductor Martina Serafin, Soprano: Floria Tosca Roberto Alagna, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi Albert Dohmen, Bass-baritone: Baron Scarpia |
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| Staatsoper, Vienna, 1010 Vienna, Austria Wednesday 12-Jun-13 Margarethe Wallmann, Director Dan Ettinger, Conductor Martina Serafin, Soprano: Floria Tosca Roberto Alagna, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi Albert Dohmen, Bass-baritone: Baron Scarpia | ||
| Monday 1-Jul-13 07:30pm |
Concertgebouw: Main Hall, Amsterdam Puccini's Tosca - Semi-Staged Robeco Summer Nights |
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| Concertgebouw: Main Hall, Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands Monday 1-Jul-13 07:30pm Puccini's Tosca - Semi-Staged Tickets €42 - €34 - €24Image credit: Rosanna Potenza in Tosca | ||
| Tuesday 9-Jul-13 07:30pm |
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London Tosca |
Royal Opera Daniel Oren, Conductor Jonathan Kent, Director Aleksandrs Antonenko, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi Martina Serafin, Soprano: Floria Tosca Scott Hendricks, Baritone: Baron Scarpia |
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| Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, Bow Street,, Covent Garden, London WC2E 9DD, United Kingdom Tuesday 9-Jul-13 07:30pm Daniel Oren, Conductor Jonathan Kent, Director Aleksandrs Antonenko, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi Martina Serafin, Soprano: Floria Tosca Scott Hendricks, Baritone: Baron Scarpia | ||
| Friday 12-Jul-13 07:30pm |
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London Tosca |
Royal Opera Daniel Oren, Conductor Jonathan Kent, Director Aleksandrs Antonenko, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi Martina Serafin, Soprano: Floria Tosca Scott Hendricks, Baritone: Baron Scarpia |
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| Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, Bow Street,, Covent Garden, London WC2E 9DD, United Kingdom Friday 12-Jul-13 07:30pm Daniel Oren, Conductor Jonathan Kent, Director Aleksandrs Antonenko, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi Martina Serafin, Soprano: Floria Tosca Scott Hendricks, Baritone: Baron Scarpia | ||
| Monday 15-Jul-13 07:30pm |
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London Tosca |
Royal Opera Daniel Oren, Conductor Jonathan Kent, Director Aleksandrs Antonenko, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi Martina Serafin, Soprano: Floria Tosca Scott Hendricks, Baritone: Baron Scarpia |
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| Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, Bow Street,, Covent Garden, London WC2E 9DD, United Kingdom Monday 15-Jul-13 07:30pm Daniel Oren, Conductor Jonathan Kent, Director Aleksandrs Antonenko, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi Martina Serafin, Soprano: Floria Tosca Scott Hendricks, Baritone: Baron Scarpia | ||
| Thursday 18-Jul-13 07:30pm |
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London Tosca |
Royal Opera Daniel Oren, Conductor Jonathan Kent, Director Aleksandrs Antonenko, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi Martina Serafin, Soprano: Floria Tosca Scott Hendricks, Baritone: Baron Scarpia |
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| Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, Bow Street,, Covent Garden, London WC2E 9DD, United Kingdom Thursday 18-Jul-13 07:30pm Daniel Oren, Conductor Jonathan Kent, Director Aleksandrs Antonenko, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi Martina Serafin, Soprano: Floria Tosca Scott Hendricks, Baritone: Baron Scarpia | ||
| Saturday 20-Jul-13 07:30pm |
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London Tosca |
Royal Opera Daniel Oren, Conductor Jonathan Kent, Director Aleksandrs Antonenko, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi Martina Serafin, Soprano: Floria Tosca Scott Hendricks, Baritone: Baron Scarpia |
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| Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, Bow Street,, Covent Garden, London WC2E 9DD, United Kingdom Saturday 20-Jul-13 07:30pm Daniel Oren, Conductor Jonathan Kent, Director Aleksandrs Antonenko, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi Martina Serafin, Soprano: Floria Tosca Scott Hendricks, Baritone: Baron Scarpia | ||
| Saturday 21-Sep-13 07:15pm |
Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Tosca |
Welsh National Opera Lothar Koenigs, Conductor Michael Blakemore, Director Ashley Martin-Davis, Set Designer Mark Henderson, Lighting Designer Mary Elizabeth Williams, Soprano: Floria Tosca Gwyn Hughes Jones, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi Claudio Otelli, Baritone: Baron Scarpia Daniel Grice, Bass: Cesare Angelotti William Robert Allenby, Bass: Sacristan |
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| Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, Bute Place, Cardiff, Cardiff CF10 5AL, United Kingdom Saturday 21-Sep-13 07:15pm Lothar Koenigs, Conductor Michael Blakemore, Director Ashley Martin-Davis, Set Designer Mark Henderson, Lighting Designer Mary Elizabeth Williams, Soprano: Floria Tosca Gwyn Hughes Jones, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi Claudio Otelli, Baritone: Baron Scarpia Daniel Grice, Bass: Cesare Angelotti William Robert Allenby, Bass: Sacristan | ||
| Saturday 28-Sep-13 07:15pm |
Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Tosca |
Welsh National Opera Simon Phillippo, Conductor Michael Blakemore, Director Ashley Martin-Davis, Set Designer Mark Henderson, Lighting Designer Mary Elizabeth Williams, Soprano: Floria Tosca Gwyn Hughes Jones, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi Claudio Otelli, Baritone: Baron Scarpia Daniel Grice, Bass: Cesare Angelotti William Robert Allenby, Bass: Sacristan |
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| Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, Bute Place, Cardiff, Cardiff CF10 5AL, United Kingdom Saturday 28-Sep-13 07:15pm Simon Phillippo, Conductor Michael Blakemore, Director Ashley Martin-Davis, Set Designer Mark Henderson, Lighting Designer Mary Elizabeth Williams, Soprano: Floria Tosca Gwyn Hughes Jones, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi Claudio Otelli, Baritone: Baron Scarpia Daniel Grice, Bass: Cesare Angelotti William Robert Allenby, Bass: Sacristan | ||
| Thursday 3-Oct-13 07:15pm |
Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Tosca |
Welsh National Opera Simon Phillippo, Conductor Michael Blakemore, Director Ashley Martin-Davis, Set Designer Mark Henderson, Lighting Designer Mary Elizabeth Williams, Soprano: Floria Tosca Gwyn Hughes Jones, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi Claudio Otelli, Baritone: Baron Scarpia Daniel Grice, Bass: Cesare Angelotti William Robert Allenby, Bass: Sacristan |
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| Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, Bute Place, Cardiff, Cardiff CF10 5AL, United Kingdom Thursday 3-Oct-13 07:15pm Simon Phillippo, Conductor Michael Blakemore, Director Ashley Martin-Davis, Set Designer Mark Henderson, Lighting Designer Mary Elizabeth Williams, Soprano: Floria Tosca Gwyn Hughes Jones, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi Claudio Otelli, Baritone: Baron Scarpia Daniel Grice, Bass: Cesare Angelotti William Robert Allenby, Bass: Sacristan | ||
| Tuesday 8-Oct-13 07:00pm |
Swansea Grand Theatre Tosca |
Welsh National Opera Simon Phillippo, Conductor Michael Blakemore, Director Ashley Martin-Davis, Set Designer Mark Henderson, Lighting Designer Mary Elizabeth Williams, Soprano: Floria Tosca Gwyn Hughes Jones, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi Claudio Otelli, Baritone: Baron Scarpia Daniel Grice, Bass: Cesare Angelotti William Robert Allenby, Bass: Sacristan |
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| Swansea Grand Theatre, Swansea SA1 6BP, United Kingdom Tuesday 8-Oct-13 07:00pm Simon Phillippo, Conductor Michael Blakemore, Director Ashley Martin-Davis, Set Designer Mark Henderson, Lighting Designer Mary Elizabeth Williams, Soprano: Floria Tosca Gwyn Hughes Jones, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi Claudio Otelli, Baritone: Baron Scarpia Daniel Grice, Bass: Cesare Angelotti William Robert Allenby, Bass: Sacristan | ||
| Saturday 12-Oct-13 07:00pm |
Swansea Grand Theatre Tosca |
Welsh National Opera Simon Phillippo, Conductor Michael Blakemore, Director Ashley Martin-Davis, Set Designer Mark Henderson, Lighting Designer Mary Elizabeth Williams, Soprano: Floria Tosca Gwyn Hughes Jones, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi Claudio Otelli, Baritone: Baron Scarpia Daniel Grice, Bass: Cesare Angelotti William Robert Allenby, Bass: Sacristan |
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| Swansea Grand Theatre, Swansea SA1 6BP, United Kingdom Saturday 12-Oct-13 07:00pm Simon Phillippo, Conductor Michael Blakemore, Director Ashley Martin-Davis, Set Designer Mark Henderson, Lighting Designer Mary Elizabeth Williams, Soprano: Floria Tosca Gwyn Hughes Jones, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi Claudio Otelli, Baritone: Baron Scarpia Daniel Grice, Bass: Cesare Angelotti William Robert Allenby, Bass: Sacristan | ||
| Tuesday 15-Oct-13 07:15pm |
New Theatre, Oxford Tosca |
Welsh National Opera Lothar Koenigs, Conductor Michael Blakemore, Director Ashley Martin-Davis, Set Designer Mark Henderson, Lighting Designer Mary Elizabeth Williams, Soprano: Floria Tosca Gwyn Hughes Jones, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi Claudio Otelli, Baritone: Baron Scarpia Daniel Grice, Bass: Cesare Angelotti William Robert Allenby, Bass: Sacristan |
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| New Theatre, Oxford, Oxford OX1 2AG, United Kingdom Tuesday 15-Oct-13 07:15pm Lothar Koenigs, Conductor Michael Blakemore, Director Ashley Martin-Davis, Set Designer Mark Henderson, Lighting Designer Mary Elizabeth Williams, Soprano: Floria Tosca Gwyn Hughes Jones, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi Claudio Otelli, Baritone: Baron Scarpia Daniel Grice, Bass: Cesare Angelotti William Robert Allenby, Bass: Sacristan | ||
| Saturday 19-Oct-13 07:15pm |
New Theatre, Oxford Tosca |
Welsh National Opera Lothar Koenigs, Conductor Michael Blakemore, Director Ashley Martin-Davis, Set Designer Mark Henderson, Lighting Designer Mary Elizabeth Williams, Soprano: Floria Tosca Gwyn Hughes Jones, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi Claudio Otelli, Baritone: Baron Scarpia Daniel Grice, Bass: Cesare Angelotti William Robert Allenby, Bass: Sacristan |
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| New Theatre, Oxford, Oxford OX1 2AG, United Kingdom Saturday 19-Oct-13 07:15pm Lothar Koenigs, Conductor Michael Blakemore, Director Ashley Martin-Davis, Set Designer Mark Henderson, Lighting Designer Mary Elizabeth Williams, Soprano: Floria Tosca Gwyn Hughes Jones, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi Claudio Otelli, Baritone: Baron Scarpia Daniel Grice, Bass: Cesare Angelotti William Robert Allenby, Bass: Sacristan | ||
| Tuesday 22-Oct-13 07:15pm |
Liverpool Empire Theatre Tosca |
Welsh National Opera Lothar Koenigs, Conductor Michael Blakemore, Director Ashley Martin-Davis, Set Designer Mark Henderson, Lighting Designer Mary Elizabeth Williams, Soprano: Floria Tosca Gwyn Hughes Jones, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi Claudio Otelli, Baritone: Baron Scarpia Daniel Grice, Bass: Cesare Angelotti William Robert Allenby, Bass: Sacristan |
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| Liverpool Empire Theatre, Liverpool LJ1 1JE, United Kingdom Tuesday 22-Oct-13 07:15pm Lothar Koenigs, Conductor Michael Blakemore, Director Ashley Martin-Davis, Set Designer Mark Henderson, Lighting Designer Mary Elizabeth Williams, Soprano: Floria Tosca Gwyn Hughes Jones, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi Claudio Otelli, Baritone: Baron Scarpia Daniel Grice, Bass: Cesare Angelotti William Robert Allenby, Bass: Sacristan | ||
| Saturday 26-Oct-13 07:15pm |
Liverpool Empire Theatre Tosca |
Welsh National Opera Simon Phillippo, Conductor Michael Blakemore, Director Ashley Martin-Davis, Set Designer Mark Henderson, Lighting Designer Mary Elizabeth Williams, Soprano: Floria Tosca Gwyn Hughes Jones, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi Claudio Otelli, Baritone: Baron Scarpia Daniel Grice, Bass: Cesare Angelotti William Robert Allenby, Bass: Sacristan |
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| Liverpool Empire Theatre, Liverpool LJ1 1JE, United Kingdom Saturday 26-Oct-13 07:15pm Simon Phillippo, Conductor Michael Blakemore, Director Ashley Martin-Davis, Set Designer Mark Henderson, Lighting Designer Mary Elizabeth Williams, Soprano: Floria Tosca Gwyn Hughes Jones, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi Claudio Otelli, Baritone: Baron Scarpia Daniel Grice, Bass: Cesare Angelotti William Robert Allenby, Bass: Sacristan | ||
| Tuesday 29-Oct-13 08:00pm |
Lincoln Center: Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, NY Tosca |
Metropolitan Opera Riccardo Frizza, Conductor Luc Bondy, Director Patricia Racette, Soprano: Floria Tosca Roberto Alagna, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi George Gagnidze, Baritone: Baron Scarpia John Del Carlo, Bass: Cesare Angelotti |
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| Lincoln Center: Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, NY, New York City, 10023, United States Tuesday 29-Oct-13 08:00pm Riccardo Frizza, Conductor Luc Bondy, Director Patricia Racette, Soprano: Floria Tosca Roberto Alagna, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi George Gagnidze, Baritone: Baron Scarpia John Del Carlo, Bass: Cesare Angelotti | ||
| Saturday 2-Nov-13 08:00pm |
Lincoln Center: Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, NY Tosca |
Metropolitan Opera Riccardo Frizza, Conductor Luc Bondy, Director Patricia Racette, Soprano: Floria Tosca Roberto Alagna, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi George Gagnidze, Baritone: Baron Scarpia John Del Carlo, Bass: Cesare Angelotti |
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| Lincoln Center: Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, NY, New York City, 10023, United States Saturday 2-Nov-13 08:00pm Riccardo Frizza, Conductor Luc Bondy, Director Patricia Racette, Soprano: Floria Tosca Roberto Alagna, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi George Gagnidze, Baritone: Baron Scarpia John Del Carlo, Bass: Cesare Angelotti | ||
| Tuesday 5-Nov-13 07:15pm |
Bristol Hippodrome Tosca |
Welsh National Opera Simon Phillippo, Conductor Michael Blakemore, Director Ashley Martin-Davis, Set Designer Mark Henderson, Lighting Designer Mary Elizabeth Williams, Soprano: Floria Tosca Gwyn Hughes Jones, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi Claudio Otelli, Baritone: Baron Scarpia Daniel Grice, Bass: Cesare Angelotti William Robert Allenby, Bass: Sacristan |
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| Bristol Hippodrome, Bristol BS1 4UZ, United Kingdom Tuesday 5-Nov-13 07:15pm Simon Phillippo, Conductor Michael Blakemore, Director Ashley Martin-Davis, Set Designer Mark Henderson, Lighting Designer Mary Elizabeth Williams, Soprano: Floria Tosca Gwyn Hughes Jones, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi Claudio Otelli, Baritone: Baron Scarpia Daniel Grice, Bass: Cesare Angelotti William Robert Allenby, Bass: Sacristan | ||
| Tuesday 5-Nov-13 08:00pm |
Lincoln Center: Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, NY Tosca |
Metropolitan Opera Riccardo Frizza, Conductor Luc Bondy, Director Patricia Racette, Soprano: Floria Tosca Roberto Alagna, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi George Gagnidze, Baritone: Baron Scarpia John Del Carlo, Bass: Cesare Angelotti |
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| Lincoln Center: Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, NY, New York City, 10023, United States Tuesday 5-Nov-13 08:00pm Riccardo Frizza, Conductor Luc Bondy, Director Patricia Racette, Soprano: Floria Tosca Roberto Alagna, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi George Gagnidze, Baritone: Baron Scarpia John Del Carlo, Bass: Cesare Angelotti | ||
| Saturday 9-Nov-13 01:00pm |
Lincoln Center: Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, NY Tosca |
Metropolitan Opera Riccardo Frizza, Conductor Luc Bondy, Director Patricia Racette, Soprano: Floria Tosca Roberto Alagna, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi George Gagnidze, Baritone: Baron Scarpia John Del Carlo, Bass: Cesare Angelotti |
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| Lincoln Center: Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, NY, New York City, 10023, United States Saturday 9-Nov-13 01:00pm Riccardo Frizza, Conductor Luc Bondy, Director Patricia Racette, Soprano: Floria Tosca Roberto Alagna, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi George Gagnidze, Baritone: Baron Scarpia John Del Carlo, Bass: Cesare Angelotti | ||
| Saturday 9-Nov-13 07:15pm |
Bristol Hippodrome Tosca |
Welsh National Opera Simon Phillippo, Conductor Michael Blakemore, Director Ashley Martin-Davis, Set Designer Mark Henderson, Lighting Designer Mary Elizabeth Williams, Soprano: Floria Tosca Gwyn Hughes Jones, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi Claudio Otelli, Baritone: Baron Scarpia Daniel Grice, Bass: Cesare Angelotti William Robert Allenby, Bass: Sacristan |
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| Bristol Hippodrome, Bristol BS1 4UZ, United Kingdom Saturday 9-Nov-13 07:15pm Simon Phillippo, Conductor Michael Blakemore, Director Ashley Martin-Davis, Set Designer Mark Henderson, Lighting Designer Mary Elizabeth Williams, Soprano: Floria Tosca Gwyn Hughes Jones, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi Claudio Otelli, Baritone: Baron Scarpia Daniel Grice, Bass: Cesare Angelotti William Robert Allenby, Bass: Sacristan | ||
| Tuesday 12-Nov-13 07:15pm |
Birmingham Hippodrome Tosca |
Welsh National Opera Lothar Koenigs, Conductor Michael Blakemore, Director Ashley Martin-Davis, Set Designer Mark Henderson, Lighting Designer Mary Elizabeth Williams, Soprano: Floria Tosca Gwyn Hughes Jones, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi Claudio Otelli, Baritone: Baron Scarpia Daniel Grice, Bass: Cesare Angelotti William Robert Allenby, Bass: Sacristan |
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| Birmingham Hippodrome, Birmingham B5 4TB, United Kingdom Tuesday 12-Nov-13 07:15pm Lothar Koenigs, Conductor Michael Blakemore, Director Ashley Martin-Davis, Set Designer Mark Henderson, Lighting Designer Mary Elizabeth Williams, Soprano: Floria Tosca Gwyn Hughes Jones, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi Claudio Otelli, Baritone: Baron Scarpia Daniel Grice, Bass: Cesare Angelotti William Robert Allenby, Bass: Sacristan | ||
| Wednesday 13-Nov-13 08:00pm |
Lincoln Center: Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, NY Tosca |
Metropolitan Opera Riccardo Frizza, Conductor Luc Bondy, Director Patricia Racette, Soprano: Floria Tosca Roberto Alagna, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi George Gagnidze, Baritone: Baron Scarpia John Del Carlo, Bass: Cesare Angelotti |
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| Lincoln Center: Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, NY, New York City, 10023, United States Wednesday 13-Nov-13 08:00pm Riccardo Frizza, Conductor Luc Bondy, Director Patricia Racette, Soprano: Floria Tosca Roberto Alagna, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi George Gagnidze, Baritone: Baron Scarpia John Del Carlo, Bass: Cesare Angelotti | ||
| Saturday 16-Nov-13 07:15pm |
Birmingham Hippodrome Tosca |
Welsh National Opera Lothar Koenigs, Conductor Michael Blakemore, Director Ashley Martin-Davis, Set Designer Mark Henderson, Lighting Designer Mary Elizabeth Williams, Soprano: Floria Tosca Gwyn Hughes Jones, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi Claudio Otelli, Baritone: Baron Scarpia Daniel Grice, Bass: Cesare Angelotti William Robert Allenby, Bass: Sacristan |
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| Birmingham Hippodrome, Birmingham B5 4TB, United Kingdom Saturday 16-Nov-13 07:15pm Lothar Koenigs, Conductor Michael Blakemore, Director Ashley Martin-Davis, Set Designer Mark Henderson, Lighting Designer Mary Elizabeth Williams, Soprano: Floria Tosca Gwyn Hughes Jones, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi Claudio Otelli, Baritone: Baron Scarpia Daniel Grice, Bass: Cesare Angelotti William Robert Allenby, Bass: Sacristan | ||
| Tuesday 19-Nov-13 07:15pm |
Venue Cymru, Llandudno Tosca |
Welsh National Opera Simon Phillippo, Conductor Michael Blakemore, Director Ashley Martin-Davis, Set Designer Mark Henderson, Lighting Designer Mary Elizabeth Williams, Soprano: Floria Tosca Gwyn Hughes Jones, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi Claudio Otelli, Baritone: Baron Scarpia Daniel Grice, Bass: Cesare Angelotti William Robert Allenby, Bass: Sacristan |
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| Venue Cymru, Llandudno, Llandudno LL30 1BB, United Kingdom Tuesday 19-Nov-13 07:15pm Simon Phillippo, Conductor Michael Blakemore, Director Ashley Martin-Davis, Set Designer Mark Henderson, Lighting Designer Mary Elizabeth Williams, Soprano: Floria Tosca Gwyn Hughes Jones, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi Claudio Otelli, Baritone: Baron Scarpia Daniel Grice, Bass: Cesare Angelotti William Robert Allenby, Bass: Sacristan | ||
| Saturday 23-Nov-13 07:15pm |
Venue Cymru, Llandudno Tosca |
Welsh National Opera Simon Phillippo, Conductor Michael Blakemore, Director Ashley Martin-Davis, Set Designer Mark Henderson, Lighting Designer Mary Elizabeth Williams, Soprano: Floria Tosca Gwyn Hughes Jones, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi Claudio Otelli, Baritone: Baron Scarpia Daniel Grice, Bass: Cesare Angelotti William Robert Allenby, Bass: Sacristan |
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| Venue Cymru, Llandudno, Llandudno LL30 1BB, United Kingdom Saturday 23-Nov-13 07:15pm Simon Phillippo, Conductor Michael Blakemore, Director Ashley Martin-Davis, Set Designer Mark Henderson, Lighting Designer Mary Elizabeth Williams, Soprano: Floria Tosca Gwyn Hughes Jones, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi Claudio Otelli, Baritone: Baron Scarpia Daniel Grice, Bass: Cesare Angelotti William Robert Allenby, Bass: Sacristan | ||
| Tuesday 26-Nov-13 07:15pm |
Mayflower, Southampton Tosca |
Welsh National Opera Simon Phillippo, Conductor Michael Blakemore, Director Ashley Martin-Davis, Set Designer Mark Henderson, Lighting Designer Mary Elizabeth Williams, Soprano: Floria Tosca Gwyn Hughes Jones, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi Claudio Otelli, Baritone: Baron Scarpia Daniel Grice, Bass: Cesare Angelotti William Robert Allenby, Bass: Sacristan |
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| Mayflower, Southampton, Southampton SO15 1GE, United Kingdom Tuesday 26-Nov-13 07:15pm Simon Phillippo, Conductor Michael Blakemore, Director Ashley Martin-Davis, Set Designer Mark Henderson, Lighting Designer Mary Elizabeth Williams, Soprano: Floria Tosca Gwyn Hughes Jones, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi Claudio Otelli, Baritone: Baron Scarpia Daniel Grice, Bass: Cesare Angelotti William Robert Allenby, Bass: Sacristan | ||
| Saturday 30-Nov-13 07:15pm |
Mayflower, Southampton Tosca |
Welsh National Opera Simon Phillippo, Conductor Michael Blakemore, Director Ashley Martin-Davis, Set Designer Mark Henderson, Lighting Designer Mary Elizabeth Williams, Soprano: Floria Tosca Gwyn Hughes Jones, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi Claudio Otelli, Baritone: Baron Scarpia Daniel Grice, Bass: Cesare Angelotti William Robert Allenby, Bass: Sacristan |
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| Mayflower, Southampton, Southampton SO15 1GE, United Kingdom Saturday 30-Nov-13 07:15pm Simon Phillippo, Conductor Michael Blakemore, Director Ashley Martin-Davis, Set Designer Mark Henderson, Lighting Designer Mary Elizabeth Williams, Soprano: Floria Tosca Gwyn Hughes Jones, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi Claudio Otelli, Baritone: Baron Scarpia Daniel Grice, Bass: Cesare Angelotti William Robert Allenby, Bass: Sacristan | ||
| Friday 6-Dec-13 07:00pm |
National Theatre, Munich Tosca |
Bavarian State Opera Kirill Petrenko, Conductor Luc Bondy, Director Richard Peduzzi, Set Designer Catherine Naglestad, Soprano: Floria Tosca Massimo Giordano, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi Francesco Petrozzi, Tenor: Spoletta Scott Hendricks, Baritone: Baron Scarpia Goran Juric, Bass: Cesare Angelotti Christoph Stephinger, Bass: Sacristan |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Friday 6-Dec-13 07:00pm They are two artists in love: Mario Cavaradossi paints pictures for the Roman clergy but sympathizes with the “repubblica romana” and hides an escaped supporter of that republic in his garden. Floria Tosca makes glowing appearances as a singer at celebrations for opponents of the republic. But her love for Mario is the driving force of her life. He falls victim to the brutal cruelty of the state. Its enforcer, Baron Scarpia, may be driven by political zeal. In the case of Tosca and Mario, though, his motive is jealous lechery. To save Mario’s life, Tosca gives in to Scarpia’s extortive deal.
According to legend, Verdi had wanted to set the sensationalistic French play by Victorien Sardou, with some borrowings from political history, to music, but considered himself too old for the task. Then Puccini couldn’t resist the temptation to take Tosca as an opera plot. He created a music drama all’italiana, a veritable drama of voices and orchestra, which places the inner motivations and acts of the pragmatists, their hopeless entanglements in the machinery of subjugation in stark contrast to the musical naturalism of banal everyday life all around them. Above it all, however, stand the beauty, power and loneliness of the voice, her voice, the voice of Tosca. In Italian with German surtitles Image credit: © Wilfried Hösl Kirill Petrenko, Conductor Luc Bondy, Director Richard Peduzzi, Set Designer Catherine Naglestad, Soprano: Floria Tosca Massimo Giordano, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi Francesco Petrozzi, Tenor: Spoletta Scott Hendricks, Baritone: Baron Scarpia Goran Juric, Bass: Cesare Angelotti Christoph Stephinger, Bass: Sacristan | ||
| Monday 9-Dec-13 07:00pm |
National Theatre, Munich Tosca |
Bavarian State Opera Kirill Petrenko, Conductor Luc Bondy, Director Richard Peduzzi, Set Designer Catherine Naglestad, Soprano: Floria Tosca Massimo Giordano, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi Francesco Petrozzi, Tenor: Spoletta Scott Hendricks, Baritone: Baron Scarpia Goran Juric, Bass: Cesare Angelotti Christoph Stephinger, Bass: Sacristan |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Monday 9-Dec-13 07:00pm They are two artists in love: Mario Cavaradossi paints pictures for the Roman clergy but sympathizes with the “repubblica romana” and hides an escaped supporter of that republic in his garden. Floria Tosca makes glowing appearances as a singer at celebrations for opponents of the republic. But her love for Mario is the driving force of her life. He falls victim to the brutal cruelty of the state. Its enforcer, Baron Scarpia, may be driven by political zeal. In the case of Tosca and Mario, though, his motive is jealous lechery. To save Mario’s life, Tosca gives in to Scarpia’s extortive deal.
According to legend, Verdi had wanted to set the sensationalistic French play by Victorien Sardou, with some borrowings from political history, to music, but considered himself too old for the task. Then Puccini couldn’t resist the temptation to take Tosca as an opera plot. He created a music drama all’italiana, a veritable drama of voices and orchestra, which places the inner motivations and acts of the pragmatists, their hopeless entanglements in the machinery of subjugation in stark contrast to the musical naturalism of banal everyday life all around them. Above it all, however, stand the beauty, power and loneliness of the voice, her voice, the voice of Tosca. In Italian with German surtitles Image credit: © Wilfried Hösl Kirill Petrenko, Conductor Luc Bondy, Director Richard Peduzzi, Set Designer Catherine Naglestad, Soprano: Floria Tosca Massimo Giordano, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi Francesco Petrozzi, Tenor: Spoletta Scott Hendricks, Baritone: Baron Scarpia Goran Juric, Bass: Cesare Angelotti Christoph Stephinger, Bass: Sacristan | ||
| Wednesday 11-Dec-13 07:30pm |
Lincoln Center: Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, NY Tosca |
Metropolitan Opera Marco Armiliato, Conductor Luc Bondy, Director Sondra Radvanovsky, Soprano: Floria Tosca Marcello Giordani, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi George Gagnidze, Baritone: Baron Scarpia John Del Carlo, Bass: Cesare Angelotti |
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| Lincoln Center: Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, NY, New York City, 10023, United States Wednesday 11-Dec-13 07:30pm Marco Armiliato, Conductor Luc Bondy, Director Sondra Radvanovsky, Soprano: Floria Tosca Marcello Giordani, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi George Gagnidze, Baritone: Baron Scarpia John Del Carlo, Bass: Cesare Angelotti | ||
| Friday 13-Dec-13 07:00pm |
National Theatre, Munich Tosca |
Bavarian State Opera Kirill Petrenko, Conductor Luc Bondy, Director Richard Peduzzi, Set Designer Catherine Naglestad, Soprano: Floria Tosca Massimo Giordano, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi Francesco Petrozzi, Tenor: Spoletta Scott Hendricks, Baritone: Baron Scarpia Goran Juric, Bass: Cesare Angelotti Christoph Stephinger, Bass: Sacristan |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Friday 13-Dec-13 07:00pm They are two artists in love: Mario Cavaradossi paints pictures for the Roman clergy but sympathizes with the “repubblica romana” and hides an escaped supporter of that republic in his garden. Floria Tosca makes glowing appearances as a singer at celebrations for opponents of the republic. But her love for Mario is the driving force of her life. He falls victim to the brutal cruelty of the state. Its enforcer, Baron Scarpia, may be driven by political zeal. In the case of Tosca and Mario, though, his motive is jealous lechery. To save Mario’s life, Tosca gives in to Scarpia’s extortive deal.
According to legend, Verdi had wanted to set the sensationalistic French play by Victorien Sardou, with some borrowings from political history, to music, but considered himself too old for the task. Then Puccini couldn’t resist the temptation to take Tosca as an opera plot. He created a music drama all’italiana, a veritable drama of voices and orchestra, which places the inner motivations and acts of the pragmatists, their hopeless entanglements in the machinery of subjugation in stark contrast to the musical naturalism of banal everyday life all around them. Above it all, however, stand the beauty, power and loneliness of the voice, her voice, the voice of Tosca. In Italian with German surtitles Image credit: © Wilfried Hösl Kirill Petrenko, Conductor Luc Bondy, Director Richard Peduzzi, Set Designer Catherine Naglestad, Soprano: Floria Tosca Massimo Giordano, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi Francesco Petrozzi, Tenor: Spoletta Scott Hendricks, Baritone: Baron Scarpia Goran Juric, Bass: Cesare Angelotti Christoph Stephinger, Bass: Sacristan | ||
| Friday 13-Dec-13 07:30pm |
Deutsche Oper, Berlin Tosca |
Deutsche Oper Berlin Ivan Repusic, Conductor Boleslaw Barlog, Director Filippo Sanjust, Set Designer Hui He, Soprano: Floria Tosca Marco Berti, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi John Lundgren, Baritone: Baron Scarpia Jörg Schörner, Tenor: Spoletta Ben Wager, Bass: Cesare Angelotti Seth Carico, Bass-baritone: Sacristan Andrew Harris, Bass: Sciarrone |
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| Deutsche Oper, Berlin, Bismarckstraße 35, Berlin, Germany Friday 13-Dec-13 07:30pm In Italian with German surtitles.
Puccini's "Torture Opera", as Oskar Bie dubbed it, was based on LA TOSCA, the well received play by Victorien Sardou [1831–1908], which premiered in Paris in 1887 with Sarah Bernhardt in the title role. Puccini attended a performance of the play in Milan during an 1889 tour and found the subject matter interesting, although the Tosca project was to remain dormant for another six years. Puccini's interest in the work grew, doubtless prompted by another viewing of the Sardou play in Florence and by Luigi Illica's work on a TOSCA libretto for composer Alberto Franchetti [1860–1942]. Following a "conspiracy" between Puccini, Illica and Ricordi, the publisher successfully persuaded Franchetti to abandon his TOSCA project and to surrender the scoring rights to Puccini.
As in all other Puccini operas TOSCA amply demonstrates the mutual causality between humane attentiveness and culinary pleasure when the composer's artistic intention becomes the benchmark for interpretations. The outcry and resignation are the two fundamental prerequisites for the human attention paid by Puccini: The empathy reflected in his composition, far from contenting itself with abstract gestures, aims to disturb and transform. The "small things" - Puccini refers to them with modern understatement as his preferred focus of attention – become "large issues", provided that we want this to happen.
In view of the connection between Puccini's choice of subject matter (directly and indirectly inspired by Zola, Hauptmann and Gorki) and his method of composition it is natural that we crown him Verdi's successor and confer on him the badge of "verismo". He is known to have been a great admirer of Wagner and anything but a second-rate imitator. He created a very personal bond with Verdi and Wagner by taking his inspiration from both masters. He took all their harmony refinements and subtleties of instrumentation and managed to detach the voice somewhat from the orchestra, all the while giving it a far more fragmented and melodically sensitive accompagnato in the orchestra than the radical and laconic Verdi ever had. This is also mirrored in the aesthetic theme of Tosca. Puccini's musical statement is as brutal as it is tender, as intelligent as it is sentimental, as precise as it is dreamy. Puccini's watchwords are authenticity, precision of musical detail, social awareness, the poetic sound of the ostensibly mundane, heroism coupled with shrewdness, the contrast between passionate commitment and cold remoteness.
The Chief of Police Scarpia, the singer Floria Tosca and the artist Cavaradossi in their different ways, all insist on their personal freedom to act as they please - Scarpia as a condition of his claim to power, Cavaradossi in his rebellious urge to bring about change and Tosca as an expression of a plain, unlimited love.
At a time of momentous change such attitudes take on an exemplary significance. Depending on how we view Puccini and ourselves today, we can approach TOSCA as a romantic schlocker or as a bad omen for freedom. Whatever our attitude, each of these very different individuals in the triangular relationship pays the ultimate price for his or her actions. Their deaths are not accompanied by a glorious halo marked Redemption; they are bitter, horrific, definitive.Image credit: © Bettina Stoss Ivan Repusic, Conductor Boleslaw Barlog, Director Filippo Sanjust, Set Designer Hui He, Soprano: Floria Tosca Marco Berti, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi John Lundgren, Baritone: Baron Scarpia Jörg Schörner, Tenor: Spoletta Ben Wager, Bass: Cesare Angelotti Seth Carico, Bass-baritone: Sacristan Andrew Harris, Bass: Sciarrone | ||
| Saturday 14-Dec-13 08:00pm |
Lincoln Center: Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, NY Tosca |
Metropolitan Opera Marco Armiliato, Conductor Luc Bondy, Director Sondra Radvanovsky, Soprano: Floria Tosca Marcello Giordani, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi George Gagnidze, Baritone: Baron Scarpia John Del Carlo, Bass: Cesare Angelotti |
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| Lincoln Center: Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, NY, New York City, 10023, United States Saturday 14-Dec-13 08:00pm Marco Armiliato, Conductor Luc Bondy, Director Sondra Radvanovsky, Soprano: Floria Tosca Marcello Giordani, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi George Gagnidze, Baritone: Baron Scarpia John Del Carlo, Bass: Cesare Angelotti | ||
| Monday 16-Dec-13 07:30pm |
Deutsche Oper, Berlin Tosca |
Deutsche Oper Berlin Ivan Repusic, Conductor Boleslaw Barlog, Director Filippo Sanjust, Set Designer Hui He, Soprano: Floria Tosca Marco Berti, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi John Lundgren, Baritone: Baron Scarpia Jörg Schörner, Tenor: Spoletta Ben Wager, Bass: Cesare Angelotti Seth Carico, Bass-baritone: Sacristan Andrew Harris, Bass: Sciarrone |
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| Deutsche Oper, Berlin, Bismarckstraße 35, Berlin, Germany Monday 16-Dec-13 07:30pm In Italian with German surtitles.
Puccini's "Torture Opera", as Oskar Bie dubbed it, was based on LA TOSCA, the well received play by Victorien Sardou [1831–1908], which premiered in Paris in 1887 with Sarah Bernhardt in the title role. Puccini attended a performance of the play in Milan during an 1889 tour and found the subject matter interesting, although the Tosca project was to remain dormant for another six years. Puccini's interest in the work grew, doubtless prompted by another viewing of the Sardou play in Florence and by Luigi Illica's work on a TOSCA libretto for composer Alberto Franchetti [1860–1942]. Following a "conspiracy" between Puccini, Illica and Ricordi, the publisher successfully persuaded Franchetti to abandon his TOSCA project and to surrender the scoring rights to Puccini. As in all other Puccini operas TOSCA amply demonstrates the mutual causality between humane attentiveness and culinary pleasure when the composer's artistic intention becomes the benchmark for interpretations. The outcry and resignation are the two fundamental prerequisites for the human attention paid by Puccini: The empathy reflected in his composition, far from contenting itself with abstract gestures, aims to disturb and transform. The "small things" - Puccini refers to them with modern understatement as his preferred focus of attention – become "large issues", provided that we want this to happen. In view of the connection between Puccini's choice of subject matter (directly and indirectly inspired by Zola, Hauptmann and Gorki) and his method of composition it is natural that we crown him Verdi's successor and confer on him the badge of "verismo". He is known to have been a great admirer of Wagner and anything but a second-rate imitator. He created a very personal bond with Verdi and Wagner by taking his inspiration from both masters. He took all their harmony refinements and subtleties of instrumentation and managed to detach the voice somewhat from the orchestra, all the while giving it a far more fragmented and melodically sensitive accompagnato in the orchestra than the radical and laconic Verdi ever had. This is also mirrored in the aesthetic theme of Tosca. Puccini's musical statement is as brutal as it is tender, as intelligent as it is sentimental, as precise as it is dreamy. Puccini's watchwords are authenticity, precision of musical detail, social awareness, the poetic sound of the ostensibly mundane, heroism coupled with shrewdness, the contrast between passionate commitment and cold remoteness. The Chief of Police Scarpia, the singer Floria Tosca and the artist Cavaradossi in their different ways, all insist on their personal freedom to act as they please - Scarpia as a condition of his claim to power, Cavaradossi in his rebellious urge to bring about change and Tosca as an expression of a plain, unlimited love. At a time of momentous change such attitudes take on an exemplary significance. Depending on how we view Puccini and ourselves today, we can approach TOSCA as a romantic schlocker or as a bad omen for freedom. Whatever our attitude, each of these very different individuals in the triangular relationship pays the ultimate price for his or her actions. Their deaths are not accompanied by a glorious halo marked Redemption; they are bitter, horrific, definitive. Image credit: © Bettina Stoss Ivan Repusic, Conductor Boleslaw Barlog, Director Filippo Sanjust, Set Designer Hui He, Soprano: Floria Tosca Marco Berti, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi John Lundgren, Baritone: Baron Scarpia Jörg Schörner, Tenor: Spoletta Ben Wager, Bass: Cesare Angelotti Seth Carico, Bass-baritone: Sacristan Andrew Harris, Bass: Sciarrone | ||
| Tuesday 17-Dec-13 08:00pm |
Lincoln Center: Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, NY Tosca |
Metropolitan Opera Marco Armiliato, Conductor Luc Bondy, Director Sondra Radvanovsky, Soprano: Floria Tosca Ricardo Tamura, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi George Gagnidze, Baritone: Baron Scarpia John Del Carlo, Bass: Cesare Angelotti |
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| Lincoln Center: Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, NY, New York City, 10023, United States Tuesday 17-Dec-13 08:00pm Marco Armiliato, Conductor Luc Bondy, Director Sondra Radvanovsky, Soprano: Floria Tosca Ricardo Tamura, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi George Gagnidze, Baritone: Baron Scarpia John Del Carlo, Bass: Cesare Angelotti | ||
| Wednesday 18-Dec-13 07:00pm |
National Theatre, Munich Tosca |
Bavarian State Opera Kirill Petrenko, Conductor Luc Bondy, Director Richard Peduzzi, Set Designer Catherine Naglestad, Soprano: Floria Tosca Massimo Giordano, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi Francesco Petrozzi, Tenor: Spoletta Scott Hendricks, Baritone: Baron Scarpia Goran Juric, Bass: Cesare Angelotti Christoph Stephinger, Bass: Sacristan |
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| National Theatre, Munich, Munich, Germany Wednesday 18-Dec-13 07:00pm They are two artists in love: Mario Cavaradossi paints pictures for the Roman clergy but sympathizes with the “repubblica romana” and hides an escaped supporter of that republic in his garden. Floria Tosca makes glowing appearances as a singer at celebrations for opponents of the republic. But her love for Mario is the driving force of her life. He falls victim to the brutal cruelty of the state. Its enforcer, Baron Scarpia, may be driven by political zeal. In the case of Tosca and Mario, though, his motive is jealous lechery. To save Mario’s life, Tosca gives in to Scarpia’s extortive deal.
According to legend, Verdi had wanted to set the sensationalistic French play by Victorien Sardou, with some borrowings from political history, to music, but considered himself too old for the task. Then Puccini couldn’t resist the temptation to take Tosca as an opera plot. He created a music drama all’italiana, a veritable drama of voices and orchestra, which places the inner motivations and acts of the pragmatists, their hopeless entanglements in the machinery of subjugation in stark contrast to the musical naturalism of banal everyday life all around them. Above it all, however, stand the beauty, power and loneliness of the voice, her voice, the voice of Tosca. In Italian with German surtitles Image credit: © Wilfried Hösl Kirill Petrenko, Conductor Luc Bondy, Director Richard Peduzzi, Set Designer Catherine Naglestad, Soprano: Floria Tosca Massimo Giordano, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi Francesco Petrozzi, Tenor: Spoletta Scott Hendricks, Baritone: Baron Scarpia Goran Juric, Bass: Cesare Angelotti Christoph Stephinger, Bass: Sacristan | ||
| Friday 20-Dec-13 07:30pm |
Lincoln Center: Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, NY Tosca |
Metropolitan Opera Marco Armiliato, Conductor Luc Bondy, Director Elisabete Matos, Soprano: Floria Tosca Marcello Giordani, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi George Gagnidze, Baritone: Baron Scarpia John Del Carlo, Bass: Cesare Angelotti |
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| Lincoln Center: Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, NY, New York City, 10023, United States Friday 20-Dec-13 07:30pm Marco Armiliato, Conductor Luc Bondy, Director Elisabete Matos, Soprano: Floria Tosca Marcello Giordani, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi George Gagnidze, Baritone: Baron Scarpia John Del Carlo, Bass: Cesare Angelotti | ||
| Monday 23-Dec-13 07:30pm |
Lincoln Center: Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, NY Tosca |
Metropolitan Opera Marco Armiliato, Conductor Luc Bondy, Director Sondra Radvanovsky, Soprano: Floria Tosca Marcello Giordani, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi George Gagnidze, Baritone: Baron Scarpia John Del Carlo, Bass: Cesare Angelotti |
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| Lincoln Center: Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, NY, New York City, 10023, United States Monday 23-Dec-13 07:30pm Marco Armiliato, Conductor Luc Bondy, Director Sondra Radvanovsky, Soprano: Floria Tosca Marcello Giordani, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi George Gagnidze, Baritone: Baron Scarpia John Del Carlo, Bass: Cesare Angelotti | ||
| Saturday 28-Dec-13 12:30pm |
Lincoln Center: Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, NY Tosca |
Metropolitan Opera Marco Armiliato, Conductor Luc Bondy, Director Sondra Radvanovsky, Soprano: Floria Tosca Marcello Giordani, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi George Gagnidze, Baritone: Baron Scarpia John Del Carlo, Bass: Cesare Angelotti |
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| Lincoln Center: Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, NY, New York City, 10023, United States Saturday 28-Dec-13 12:30pm Marco Armiliato, Conductor Luc Bondy, Director Sondra Radvanovsky, Soprano: Floria Tosca Marcello Giordani, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi George Gagnidze, Baritone: Baron Scarpia John Del Carlo, Bass: Cesare Angelotti | ||
| Saturday 18-Jan-14 07:30pm |
Deutsche Oper, Berlin Tosca |
Deutsche Oper Berlin Matthias Foremny, Conductor Boleslaw Barlog, Director Filippo Sanjust, Set Designer Tatiana Serjan, Soprano: Floria Tosca Marcello Giordani, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi Thomas Hampson, Baritone: Baron Scarpia Jörg Schörner, Tenor: Spoletta Ben Wager, Bass: Cesare Angelotti Seth Carico, Bass-baritone: Sacristan Andrew Harris, Bass: Sciarrone |
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| Deutsche Oper, Berlin, Bismarckstraße 35, Berlin, Germany Saturday 18-Jan-14 07:30pm In Italian with German surtitles. Puccini's "Torture Opera", as Oskar Bie dubbed it, was based on LA TOSCA, the well received play by Victorien Sardou [1831–1908], which premiered in Paris in 1887 with Sarah Bernhardt in the title role. Puccini attended a performance of the play in Milan during an 1889 tour and found the subject matter interesting, although the Tosca project was to remain dormant for another six years. Puccini's interest in the work grew, doubtless prompted by another viewing of the Sardou play in Florence and by Luigi Illica's work on a TOSCA libretto for composer Alberto Franchetti [1860–1942]. Following a "conspiracy" between Puccini, Illica and Ricordi, the publisher successfully persuaded Franchetti to abandon his TOSCA project and to surrender the scoring rights to Puccini. As in all other Puccini operas TOSCA amply demonstrates the mutual causality between humane attentiveness and culinary pleasure when the composer's artistic intention becomes the benchmark for interpretations. The outcry and resignation are the two fundamental prerequisites for the human attention paid by Puccini: The empathy reflected in his composition, far from contenting itself with abstract gestures, aims to disturb and transform. The "small things" - Puccini refers to them with modern understatement as his preferred focus of attention – become "large issues", provided that we want this to happen. In view of the connection between Puccini's choice of subject matter (directly and indirectly inspired by Zola, Hauptmann and Gorki) and his method of composition it is natural that we crown him Verdi's successor and confer on him the badge of "verismo". He is known to have been a great admirer of Wagner and anything but a second-rate imitator. He created a very personal bond with Verdi and Wagner by taking his inspiration from both masters. He took all their harmony refinements and subtleties of instrumentation and managed to detach the voice somewhat from the orchestra, all the while giving it a far more fragmented and melodically sensitive accompagnato in the orchestra than the radical and laconic Verdi ever had. This is also mirrored in the aesthetic theme of Tosca. Puccini's musical statement is as brutal as it is tender, as intelligent as it is sentimental, as precise as it is dreamy. Puccini's watchwords are authenticity, precision of musical detail, social awareness, the poetic sound of the ostensibly mundane, heroism coupled with shrewdness, the contrast between passionate commitment and cold remoteness. The Chief of Police Scarpia, the singer Floria Tosca and the artist Cavaradossi in their different ways, all insist on their personal freedom to act as they please - Scarpia as a condition of his claim to power, Cavaradossi in his rebellious urge to bring about change and Tosca as an expression of a plain, unlimited love. At a time of momentous change such attitudes take on an exemplary significance. Depending on how we view Puccini and ourselves today, we can approach TOSCA as a romantic schlocker or as a bad omen for freedom. Whatever our attitude, each of these very different individuals in the triangular relationship pays the ultimate price for his or her actions. Their deaths are not accompanied by a glorious halo marked Redemption; they are bitter, horrific, definitive. Image credit: © Bettina Stoss Matthias Foremny, Conductor Boleslaw Barlog, Director Filippo Sanjust, Set Designer Tatiana Serjan, Soprano: Floria Tosca Marcello Giordani, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi Thomas Hampson, Baritone: Baron Scarpia Jörg Schörner, Tenor: Spoletta Ben Wager, Bass: Cesare Angelotti Seth Carico, Bass-baritone: Sacristan Andrew Harris, Bass: Sciarrone | ||
| Wednesday 22-Jan-14 07:30pm |
Deutsche Oper, Berlin Tosca |
Deutsche Oper Berlin Matthias Foremny, Conductor Boleslaw Barlog, Director Filippo Sanjust, Set Designer Tatiana Serjan, Soprano: Floria Tosca Marcello Giordani, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi Thomas Hampson, Baritone: Baron Scarpia Jörg Schörner, Tenor: Spoletta Ben Wager, Bass: Cesare Angelotti Seth Carico, Bass-baritone: Sacristan Andrew Harris, Bass: Sciarrone |
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| Deutsche Oper, Berlin, Bismarckstraße 35, Berlin, Germany Wednesday 22-Jan-14 07:30pm In Italian with German surtitles.
Puccini's "Torture Opera", as Oskar Bie dubbed it, was based on LA TOSCA, the well received play by Victorien Sardou [1831–1908], which premiered in Paris in 1887 with Sarah Bernhardt in the title role. Puccini attended a performance of the play in Milan during an 1889 tour and found the subject matter interesting, although the Tosca project was to remain dormant for another six years. Puccini's interest in the work grew, doubtless prompted by another viewing of the Sardou play in Florence and by Luigi Illica's work on a TOSCA libretto for composer Alberto Franchetti [1860–1942]. Following a "conspiracy" between Puccini, Illica and Ricordi, the publisher successfully persuaded Franchetti to abandon his TOSCA project and to surrender the scoring rights to Puccini. As in all other Puccini operas TOSCA amply demonstrates the mutual causality between humane attentiveness and culinary pleasure when the composer's artistic intention becomes the benchmark for interpretations. The outcry and resignation are the two fundamental prerequisites for the human attention paid by Puccini: The empathy reflected in his composition, far from contenting itself with abstract gestures, aims to disturb and transform. The "small things" - Puccini refers to them with modern understatement as his preferred focus of attention – become "large issues", provided that we want this to happen. In view of the connection between Puccini's choice of subject matter (directly and indirectly inspired by Zola, Hauptmann and Gorki) and his method of composition it is natural that we crown him Verdi's successor and confer on him the badge of "verismo". He is known to have been a great admirer of Wagner and anything but a second-rate imitator. He created a very personal bond with Verdi and Wagner by taking his inspiration from both masters. He took all their harmony refinements and subtleties of instrumentation and managed to detach the voice somewhat from the orchestra, all the while giving it a far more fragmented and melodically sensitive accompagnato in the orchestra than the radical and laconic Verdi ever had. This is also mirrored in the aesthetic theme of Tosca. Puccini's musical statement is as brutal as it is tender, as intelligent as it is sentimental, as precise as it is dreamy. Puccini's watchwords are authenticity, precision of musical detail, social awareness, the poetic sound of the ostensibly mundane, heroism coupled with shrewdness, the contrast between passionate commitment and cold remoteness. The Chief of Police Scarpia, the singer Floria Tosca and the artist Cavaradossi in their different ways, all insist on their personal freedom to act as they please - Scarpia as a condition of his claim to power, Cavaradossi in his rebellious urge to bring about change and Tosca as an expression of a plain, unlimited love. At a time of momentous change such attitudes take on an exemplary significance. Depending on how we view Puccini and ourselves today, we can approach TOSCA as a romantic schlocker or as a bad omen for freedom. Whatever our attitude, each of these very different individuals in the triangular relationship pays the ultimate price for his or her actions. Their deaths are not accompanied by a glorious halo marked Redemption; they are bitter, horrific, definitive. Image credit: © Bettina Stoss Matthias Foremny, Conductor Boleslaw Barlog, Director Filippo Sanjust, Set Designer Tatiana Serjan, Soprano: Floria Tosca Marcello Giordani, Tenor: Mario Cavaradossi Thomas Hampson, Baritone: Baron Scarpia Jörg Schörner, Tenor: Spoletta Ben Wager, Bass: Cesare Angelotti Seth Carico, Bass-baritone: Sacristan Andrew Harris, Bass: Sciarrone | ||
