Tosca

Puccini aims for truth in life, accuracy, also within the musical details, social attention, the poetic sound of the seemingly ordinary, the heroic with calculus, the contrast between dedicated passion and cool distance. In a time of epochal upheavals, such attitudes gain exemplary meaningfulness. Depending on how we understand ourselves, as well as Puccini at this time, TOSCA remains a horror romance or becomes the warning sign of the theme of "freedom".

Götz Friedrich's 1987 recapitulation of Boleslaw Barlog's straightforward and scenic staging from 1969 takes Puccini's intentions to the word - the reciprocal conditionality of human attention and culinary pleasure is inspired by music as a starting point for scenic interpretation.

In Italien with German and English surtitles.