Giacomo Puccini: Tosca
Staging team
- Conductor: F. Drs, O. Lenárd
- Stage director: M. Otava
- Set designer: J. Svoboda
- Costume designer: J. Jelínek
- Chorus master: T. Karlovič
- Assistant director: L. Cukr, P. Jirsa
Cast
- Conductor: F. Drs, O. Lenárd, H. Griffiths
- Floria Tosca: A.-L. Bogza, Ch. Vasileva, M. Hundeling, J. Derilova
- Mario Cavaradossi, painter: I. Jan, T. Černý
- Baron Scarpia, prefect: M. Cavalcanti, R. Haan, J. Sulženko, J. Kettner
- Parish clerk: M. Bürger, L. Hynek-Krämer
- Cesare Angelotti: O. Kříž, L. Mlejnek, L. Hynek-Krämer
- Spoletta, police agent: L. Havlák, J. Hruška
- Sciarrone, valet: R. Vocel, O. Kříž, M. Horák
- Shepherd: E. Jarkovská, G. Pešinová, S. Koczianová
- Gaoler: F. Ryšavý, R. Prázný
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
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)
Tosca on the SOP schedule
- April 2, 2010 19:00
- April 18, 2010 16:00
- May 7, 2010 19:00
- May 26, 2010 19:00
- June 4, 2010 19:00
- September 2, 2010 19:00
- October 1, 2010 19:00
- October 29, 2010 19:00
- December 17, 2010 19:00
- December 27, 2010 19:00
- January 25, 2011 19:00
- February 19, 2011 19:00
- March 11, 2011 19:00
- March 27, 2011 14:00
- March 27, 2011 19:00
- April 2, 2011 19:00
- April 10, 2011 14:00
- April 10, 2011 19:00
- May 12, 2011 19:00
- June 16, 2011 19:00
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