Tosca

Composer: Puccini, Giacomo

Librettist/Text Author: Giacosa, Giuseppe

Librettist/Text Author: Illica, Luigi

Conductor: Galli, Valerio

Orchestra: Puccini Festival Orchestra

Chorus: Puccini Festival Chorus

Chorus Master: Visconti, Stefano

Chorus: Puccini Festival Children's Choir

Chorus Master: Visconti, Stefano

Cesare Angelotti: Ferrari, Riccardo

Floria Tosca: Cifrone, Antonia

Il Sagrestano: Boscolo, Franco

Mario Cavaradossi: Secco, Stefano

Scarpia: Surian, Giorgio

Sciarrone: Ciuffo, Fernando Luis

Spoletta: Guardia, Massimo La

Un carceriere: Torcigliani, Veio

Un pastore: Caramanna, Giovanni

Set Designer: Mitoraj, Igor

Costume Designer: Mitoraj, Igor

Lighting Designer: Alfieri, Valerio

Stage Director: Corradini, Mario

Television Director: Ricchetti, Matteo

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Festival: Puccini Festival

Venue: Festival Puccini, Torre del Lago

Playing Time: 02:04:13

Catalogue Number: 33569

UPC: 8007144335694

Libretto

Tosca

Synopsis

Tosca

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Giacomo Puccini's fifth opera was first staged at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome in 14th January 1900. Tosca is an opera that arouses powerful feelings, written by a musician who excelled in the characterisation of weak figures. It is one of the most popular of Puccini's works, for it successfully conveys the irresistible force of elemental emotions and passions: jealousy, desire, love of life, despair in the face of death. In this sense Tosca is much more like the "desperate passion" of Manon Lescaut than the crepuscular intimism of Boheme.