
Giacomo Puccini

Mieczysław Weinberg

Giuseppe Verdi

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Giuseppe Verdi

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Benjamin Britten

Grigory Frid. Udo Zimmermann

Carl Maria von Weber — Gustav Mahler

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Alexander Tchaikovsky

Giacomo Puccini

Alexander Dargomyzhsky

Richard Strauss

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Giuseppe Verdi

Antonín Dvořák

Dmitri Shostakovich

Gaetano Donizetti

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Sergei Banevich

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

George Frideric Handel

Georges Bizet

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Gioachino Rossini

Dimitry Rostovsky

Giacomo Puccini

Richard Wagner

Richard Strauss

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Georges Bizet

Dmitri Shostakovich
Alexei Verstovsky

Anton Rubinstein

Sergei Prokofiev

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Georg Philipp Telemann

Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Guiseppe Verdi

Modest Mussorgsky

Antonio Salieri

Gaetano Donizetti

Benjamin Britten. Camille Saint-Saëns

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Gioacchino Rossini

Dmitri Shostakovich
Umberto Giordano

Modest Mussorgsky
Hector Berlioz

Giacomo Puccini

Jacques Offenbach

Sergei Prokofiev. Maurice Ravel

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Tatiana Kamysheva

The first performance of the opera Tosca by Giacomo Puccini took place at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on the 14th of January 1900. To create this opera, the composer was inspired by Sarah Bernhardt, who performed Tosca in the play of the same name by Victorien Sardou. For the first time Puccini saw her in this role in 1889, then he visited the performance again and met her. He had been dreaming of writing an opera to this plot for many years and when he finally got hold of the libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, he started the work immediately. On the 29th of September 1899, the opera was completed.
Premiered on April 21, 2021.
Presented with two intervals.
Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica based on Victorien Sardou’s play of the same name
Sunday, 14:00
Saturday, 19:00
Friday, 19:00
Thursday, 19:00
Wednesday, 19:00
Sunday, 14:00
Saturday, 19:00
Friday, 19:00
Thursday, 19:00
Wednesday, 19:00
Sunday, 19:00
Saturday, 19:00
Friday, 19:00
Thursday, 19:00
Wednesday, 19:00
Sunday, 14:00
Saturday, 19:00
Friday, 19:00
Thursday, 19:00
Wednesday, 19:00
Sunday, 19:00
Saturday, 19:00
Friday, 19:00
Thursday, 19:00
Wednesday, 19:00
Tuesday, 19:00
Act I
Political fugitive Cesare Angelotti, a former Consul of the Roman Republic, is hiding in Sant'Andrea della Valle basilica, having escaped from prison. His sister, the Marchesa Attavanti, has prepared women’s clothes for him so that he can leave Rome unrecognised.
The Sacristan appears. He is unhappy with his job and with Mario Cavaradossi, the artist who is painting the church. The artist himself enters. The Sacristan recognises a beautiful parishioner in the painted image of Mary Magdalene, and Cavaradossi reflects on how different beauty can be. Grumbling, the Sacristan leaves, and Angelotti draws Cavaradossi’s attention. The artist is ready to help the fugitive, but Floria Tosca, a famous singer, comes in at this moment, and Angelotti hides again, taking Cavaradossi’s lunch basket with him.