Giacomo Puccini – Tosca (Barrie Kosky / Lorenzo Viotti)

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Opera in three acts (1900)

Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica after the play ‘La Tosca’ by Victorien Sardou

‘Tosca’ is a melodrama of love, betrayal and death set in the revolutionary unrest of 1800. The story concerns the opera singer Floria Tosca who tries to save her lover, the painter Mario Cavaradossi, from the brutal chief of police, Scarpia. Through-composed and expertly orchestrated it contains some of Puccini’s best-known lyrical arias and remains one of his most performed operas. In this 2022 production, an eminent cast is directed by the acclaimed Australian director Barrie Kosky – ‘the Amsterdam audience was completely swept off its feet by Kosky’s stunning production’ (‘Opera News’).

Floria Tosca – Malin Byström, soprano
Mario Cavaradossi – Joshua Guerrero, tenor
Il Barone Scarpia – Gevorg Hakobyan, baritone
Cesare Angelotti – Martijn Sanders, bass-baritone
Il Sagrestano – Federico de Michelis, bass-baritone

Chorus of Dutch National Opera
Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor – Lorenzo Viotti

Stage Director – Barrie Kosky
Set Designer – Rufus Didwiszus
Costume Designer – Klaus Bruns
Lighting Designer – Franck Evin

Film Director – François Roussillon
Filmed on 3 and 6 May 2022 at Dutch National Opera & Ballet, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

A co-production between Dutch National Opera and François Roussillon et Associés with the participation

DVD 2.110752 / Blu-ray NBD0166V

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