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Tosca
Giacomo Puccini
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Theater Duisburg
Thursday, 12. January 2012 19:30 - 22:00 hours Duration: about 2 1/2 hours, one interval 16,10 - 56,00 €  |
Duration: about 2 1/2 hours, one interval
In Rome as a police state run by Baron Scarpia the famous singer Floria Tosca believes that she can live only for her art. She has no inclination for political opposition, still less for revolution. Only when her lover, the painter Cavaradossi, is accused of having cached the former consul Angelotti does she find herself caught up in the police chief’s political intrigues. Scarpia has long since had erotic ambitions towards Tosca and uses her fear for her lover to realize these ambitions by blackmail. If she is to save Cavaradossi from execution, she must yield to the Baron’s lust. Tosca ostensibly accedes to the deal, but as Scarpia then makes for her, she stabs him. For Tosca and Cavaradossi the path to freedom seems to be open, but Scarpia’s hand has power beyond death.
Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924) wrote his opera in 1889 after the drama “La Tosca” by the French dramatist Victorien Sardou. “Make the heroine suffer” was what the latter cited as his recipe for success. Puccini took over this recipe in the concept of his opera, although at first he wanted his heroine to end in madness and not, as with Sardou, in death, which he found too drastic.
Stage-director Dietrich Hilsdorf particularly stresses the aspect of Scarpia’s psychological torture of Tosca. This suffering finally drives the singer into that madness which Puccini had at first envisaged for her. Tosca can no longer differentiate between fact and fiction. Faithful to a quotation from the libretto “Tosca on stage was never more tragic”, Hilsdorf and his designer Johannes Leiacker present in the confrontation of the jealously loving singer with Scarpia’s police state a “realistic psycho-thriller” (Ulrich Schreiber) of an atmospheric tension hardly to be surpassed.
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Giacomo Puccini
TOSCA
Opera in three acts
Libretto by Luigi Illica und Giuseppe Giacosa
Sung in Italian with German titles
Musikalische Leitung Enrico Dovico
Inszenierung Dietrich Hilsdorf
Bühne und Kostüme Johannes Leiacker
Chorleitung Christoph Kurig
Kinderchorleitung Petra Verhoeven
Dramaturgie Cornelia Dr. Preissinger
Tosca Raffaella Angeletti
Cavaradossi Gustavo Porta
Scarpia John Wegner
Angelotti Adam Palka
Sagrestano Peter Nikolaus Kante
Spoletta Florian Simson
Sciarrone Lukasz Konieczny
Chor Chor der Deutschen Oper am Rhein
Orchester Duisburger Philharmoniker
Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924) wrote his opera in 1889 after the drama “La Tosca” by the French dramatist Victorien Sardou. “Make the heroine suffer” was what the latter cited as his recipe for success. Puccini took over this recipe in the concept of his opera, although at first he wanted his heroine to end in madness and not, as with Sardou, in death, which he found too drastic.
Stage-director Dietrich Hilsdorf particularly stresses the aspect of Scarpia’s psychological torture of Tosca. This suffering finally drives the singer into that madness which Puccini had at first envisaged for her. Tosca can no longer differentiate between fact and fiction. Faithful to a quotation from the libretto “Tosca on stage was never more tragic”, Hilsdorf and his designer Johannes Leiacker present in the confrontation of the jealously loving singer with Scarpia’s police state a “realistic psycho-thriller” (Ulrich Schreiber) of an atmospheric tension hardly to be surpassed.
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Giacomo Puccini
TOSCA
Opera in three acts
Libretto by Luigi Illica und Giuseppe Giacosa
Sung in Italian with German titles
Musikalische Leitung Enrico Dovico
Inszenierung Dietrich Hilsdorf
Bühne und Kostüme Johannes Leiacker
Chorleitung Christoph Kurig
Kinderchorleitung Petra Verhoeven
Dramaturgie Cornelia Dr. Preissinger
Tosca Raffaella Angeletti
Cavaradossi Gustavo Porta
Scarpia John Wegner
Angelotti Adam Palka
Sagrestano Peter Nikolaus Kante
Spoletta Florian Simson
Sciarrone Lukasz Konieczny
Chor Chor der Deutschen Oper am Rhein
Orchester Duisburger Philharmoniker
