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Giacomo Puccini: Tosca

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Love, jealousy, hate, death – these are the attributes of many operas and so it is with this, the most famous, opera by Puccini. It is set against the background of political strife in Italy in 1800. Dramatically it is once more an opera, which enthrals by its dramatic suspense and scenes imbued with passionate commotion and despair. Puccini’s music is matched to the drama.

The renewed set design of Josef Svoboda, created by him for the production in the Grand Opera on May 5, 1947, still commands respect both for its grandiosity and its purity of artistic expression.

Premiere: Jun 7, 1999

Running time: 2 hours 45 minutes with 2 intermissions
Performed in Italian with Czech and English captions.

Response in the press

“Svoboda’s sets for Tosca (of 1947) were still free from the use of modern technical gadgetry which earned him fame later on, and yet each of the three sceneries is impressive enough to call out momentaneous bursts of applause for the freshly unveiled stage…”

(Petr Pavlovský, Kulturní přehled, Praha, 9/1999)

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The Prague State Opera – Theatre History in Pictures and Dates
Tomáš Vrbka
The Prague State Opera in cooperation with the Slovart publishing house publishes a representative book tracking the history of this significant cultural institution since its opening in 1888 till the end of the 2002/2003 season. The publication called The Prague State Opera – Theatre History in Pictures and Dates is focusing solely on the opera featured at the scene, even though the theatre under various names also served to presentation of drama plays, operettas and ballet. The Prague State opera plans to publish the volumes concentrating on those genres in the next years.

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