Tosca

Tickets
Address Plac Teatralny 1, Warszawa
Tags Opera
Venue's website www.teatrwielki.pl…
Length 180 min
Director Barbara Wysocka
Release 2019
Author Giacomo Puccini

Performing: Aleksandra Kurzak, Murat Karahan, Mikołaj Zalasiński, Dariusz Machej, Piotr Maciejowski, Adam Kruszewski

Ever since its 1900 premiere at the Teatro Constanzi in Rome, Tosca has sold-out nearly everywhere it was put on. The tragic love story involving blackmail, cruelty, different dimensions of humanity and its lack, crime, and amoral attitudes fascinates audiences that become engulfed by this deadly love tornado.

Puccini had aspired to write an opera to a libretto based on Victorien Sardou’s text since 1889. He was not a recognised composer back then, which reduced his chances of obtaining the commission. The competition was fierce: Verdi himself was interested in the material. Prominent Italian editor and musician Giulio Ricordi recommended Alberto Franchetti for the task. The young composer did not come to an agreement with librettist Luigi Illika and the job was given to Puccini. Originally set in Rome at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries, in Barbara Wysocka’s staging the story moves to Italy of the 1970s, a period of violence inflicted by the Red Brigades in response to the neo-fascist activities of the 1960s. The political turmoil, abuses of power, impotence of the state, social rebellion, violence and terror seems to affect the lovers’ tragic fate.

conductor: Patrick Fournillier set designer: Barbara Hanicka costume designer: Julia Kornacka choreography: Jacek Przybyłowicz lighting designer: Marc Heinz video projections: Lea Mattausch, Artur Sienicki hair and make-up designer: Mateusz Stępniak choir master: Mirosław Janowski children’s choir master: Danuta Chmurska

The show will be presented in its original Italian with Polish surtitles.

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