Tosca / 2001

Tratto dal dramma di Victorien Sardou, a sua volta alla base dell'opera di Puccini, la storia della cantante Floria Tosca - amante del pittore Cavaradossi - che, nella Roma papalina, finge di cedere alle voglie del barone Scarpia per salvare l'amato, condannato a morte. Infatti Scarpia ha promesso una finta esecuzione per Mario, dando poi ad essi la possibilità di lasciare Roma. Ma il Barone inganna Tosca e fa fucilare realmente Cavaradossi. Davanti al suo corpo immobile, Tosca - che ha già ucciso Scarpia - si getta dai bastioni di Castel Sant'Angelo.

Tosca / 20188.02 voti

Sir David McVicar’s bold new staging of Tosca, Puccini’s operatic thriller of Napoleonic Rome, thrilled Met audiences when it rang in the New Year in 2018. Only weeks later, the production was seen by opera lovers worldwide as part of the Met’s Live in HD series of cinema presentations. In this performance, Bulgarian soprano Sonya Yoncheva is the passionate title diva, opposite charismatic tenor Vittorio Grigolo as her lover, the idealistic painter Mario Cavaradossi. Baritone Željko Lučić is the menacing Baron Scarpia, the evil chief of police who employs brutal tactics to ensnare both criminals and sexual conquests. On the podium, Emmanuel Villaume conducts the electrifying score, which features some of Puccini’s most memorable melodies.

Tosca / 2011

The star singers in this revival of the 2006 production were Angela Gheorghiu, Jonas Kaufmann and Bryn Terfel; the Royal Opera Chorus and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House were under the baton of Antonio Pappano, the Music Director of the Royal Opera House. The pageantry of church ritual, the darkness of a brooding study with its hidden torture chamber and the false optimism of the light of a Roman dawn - all throw into relief the love of the beautiful diva Tosca, the idealism of her lover Cavaradossi and the deadly, destructive obsession of the malevolent Chief of Police, Scarpia. Drama, passion and fabulous music.

Tosca / 1956

A nasty Rome police chief circa 1800 forces the lover of a painter, suspected of harboring a political prisoner, to reveal the hiding place and to yield to his power and lust.

Tosca / 1985

Metropolitan Opera Theatre, marzo 1985: va in scena una Tosca indimenticabile. I protagonisti sono un Placido Domingo all'apice dei suoi mezzi vocali e della sua maturità di interprete e una Hildegard Behrens capace come poche, in quegli anni, di dominare la vocalità della protagonista. Accanto a loro Cornell MacNeil da vita da par suo a uno dei suoi ruoli preferiti, quello del perfido Scarpia. Lo spettacolo si distingue anche per la regia di Franco Zeffirelli, monumentale e funebre, e per la prova di Giuseppe Sinopoli. Il direttore italiano, nella sua unica presenza al Metropolitan, restituisce la tinta tragica della partitura sottolinenando la straordinaria modernità del suo tessuto orchestrale.

Tosca by Giacomo Puccini / 2019

As part of the 2019 Aix-en-Provence Opera Festival, filmmaker Christophe Honoré delivers an innovative staging of Giacomo Puccini's famous drama. His cleverly staged "opera within the opera" is a melancholy homage to the fascinating figure of the diva, who thrives on art and love and upsets the laws of time and death.

Tosca / 2006

Puccini’s melodrama about a volatile diva, a sadistic police chief, and an idealistic artist has offended and thrilled audiences for more than a century. Critics, for their part, have often had problems with Tosca’s rather grungy subject matter, the directness and intensity of its score, and the crowd-pleasing dramatic opportunities it provides for its lead roles. But these same aspects have also made Tosca one of a handful of iconic works that seem to represent opera in the public imagination.

Tosca / 20199.01 voti

Con la nuova produzione di Tosca nell’edizione critica di Roger Parker per Ricordi il Direttore Musicale Riccardo Chailly continua il percorso di presentazione delle opere di Giacomo Puccini alla luce delle ricerche musicologiche più recenti, con cui ha già riportato alla Scala Turandot, La fanciulla del West, Madama Butterfly e Manon Lescaut. Se nel corso dei decenni l’opera di Gioachino Rossini e Giuseppe Verdi è stata ripensata grazie alle edizioni critiche e all’esame delle varianti, i capolavori di Giacomo Puccini sono stati finora presentati in versioni che recavano spesso inconsapevolmente le incrostazioni della tradizione. Di qui l’importanza della proposta: ma questa Tosca inaugurale sarà innanzitutto una festa della musica, grazie anche alle voci superbe di Anna Netrebko, Francesco Meli e Luca Salsi, e del teatro con il ritorno di Davide Livermore, già applauditissimo per Attila il 7 dicembre 2018, che si avvarrà delle scene di Giò Forma.

Tosca / 1992

Contemporary Rome is the setting for this unique and highly innovative version of Puccini's Tosca, performed in the Roman locations--and at the same times of day--as Puccini had written into his score. Thus the action opens in the beautiful 16th century church of Sant'Andrea della Valle at noon, where Cavaradossi (Domingo) is painting a portrait, moves to the Farnese Palace that evening where Tosca (Malfitano) dramatically stabs the lustful Scarpia (Raimondi) and finally in the battlements of Castel Sant'Angelo at dawn the following day where the last moments of the drama are completed.

Tosca / 1986

This live version of Puccini s superbly dramatic opera was recorded in Rome in the exact locations and at the precise times of day as Puccini had written into his score. The action opens in Rome's beautiful 16th-century church of Sant Andrea della Valle, where Cavaradossi (Plácido Domingo) is innocently painting, moves to the Farnese Palace where Tosca (Catherine Malfitano) dramatically stabs the lustful Scarpia (Ruggero Raimondi), and finally to the battlements of the Castle Sant Angelo at dawn the following day where Cavaradossi is cruelly killed, and Tosca takes her own life.

Tosca / 2023

Tosca / 2010

Based on an old Russian folk song. This film was created in blackboard animation.

Tosca / 2012

This production from the historic Teatro Carlo Felice in Genova, Italy, stars the opera worlds power couple, Daniela Dessì and Fabio Armiliato, as lovers Tosca and Cavaradossi. A tragic tale of doomed love interlaced with the age-old themes of jealousy, lust and intrigue, has ensured Tosca its place in the top ten of opera favourites. Probably the best contemporary soprano-tenor combination (a couple in real life, too) Daniela Dessì and Fabio Armiliato are ranged against a worthy opponent in the form of Claudio Sgura as police chief Baron Scarpia.

Tosca / 2014

Desire, power, and passion take center stage in the Opéra Royal de Wallonie’s 2014 production of Puccini’s incomparable masterpiece Tosca. The brilliant three-act melodrama was staged by Claire Servais and featured Paolo Arrivabeni as music director. Dutch soprano Barbara Haveman is the desperate Tosca to acclaimed Italian bass-baritone Ruggero Raimondi’s evil Scarpia.

Tosca / 2014

In a mythical yet real Rome, from the shadows of the church of Sant’ Andrea della Valle to the terrace of Castello Sant’ Angelo, passions collide and tear all apart, mingling the erotic with the sacred, love with possession, theatre with life. Nothing is what it seems in Tosca. Live from the Opéra Bastille in Paris.

Tosca / 2009

Live from the Zurich Opera House, 2009.

Tosca / 1978

A stellar cast brings Puccini’s spellbinding opera to life, seizing every opportunity to thrill the audience. Luciano Pavarotti is Cavaradossi, the painter and political revolutionary in love with the beautiful and famous singer Tosca (the riveting Shirley Verrett). Rome’s diabolical chief of police, Baron Scarpia (Cornell MacNeil), wants Tosca for himself—but he underestimates the fury of a woman in love. With torture, murder, and a suicide in its final moments, Tosca packs more dramatic punches than most other operas—and this classic telecast captures them all. James Conlon conducts in a production by the incomparable Tito Gobbi, one of the great Scarpias of the 20th century.

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Tosca / 1918

Film version of the play.