Tosca

by Giacomo Pucchini
Music drama in three acts
Libretto after Victorien Sardou by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica after Victorien Sardou

in Italian with German and English surtitles
While La Bohème consists only of poetry and not of action, it is said that with Tosca it is the other way around: only action, no poetry. Even the librettist Giuseppe Giacosa considered Sardou's original completely unsuitable for an opera. “What made Puccini come to terms with such a real and dealing with a brutal subject whose actors are little more than puppets entangled in a highly intelligent, cleverly designed plot? ”asked the music critic Mosco Carner. Maybe just that? For over 20 years Willy Decker's classic production of Puccini's Sex and Crime masterpiece has been a repertory perennial.

Notes on sensitive content and sensory stimuli

Location
Opernhaus
Duration
Act I: approx. 45 min
Intermission: approx. 30 min
Act II/III: approx. 1 h 10 min
First Performance
1900 in Rome

Premiere of this production
1998

Recommended age
from grade 8
There will be a german introduction 45 minutes before the performance at foyer I. floor.
Libretto
The complete text of the opera in english translation can be found here:
www.opera-guide.ch

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