Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Modest Mussorgsky
Giacomo Puccini
César Cui. Igor Stravinsky
Gioachino Rossini
Francesco Cilea
Richard Wagner
Richard Strauss
Gaetano Donizetti
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Georges Bizet
Gioacchino Rossini
Alexander Ostrovsky, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Umberto Giordano
Richard Strauss
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Ruggero Leoncavallo
Andrei Rubtsov
Dimitry Rostovsky
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Alexei Verstovsky
Giuseppe Verdi
Anton Rubinstein
Benjamin Britten. Camille Saint-Saëns
Mieczysław Weinberg
Sergei Banevich
Modest Mussorgsky
Grigory Frid. Udo Zimmermann
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Georg Philipp Telemann
Sergei Prokofiev
Giuseppe Verdi
Sergei Prokofiev. Maurice Ravel
Dmitry Shostakovich
Tatiana Kamysheva
Georges Bizet
Giacomo Puccini
Jacques Offenbach
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Dmitry Shostakovich
Hector Berlioz
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
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
Photo by Pavel Rychkov.
Photo by Damir Yusupov.
Photo by Damir Yusupov.
Photo by Pavel Rychkov.
Photo by Pavel Rychkov.
Photo by Damir Yusupov.
Photo by Damir Yusupov.
Photo by Damir Yusupov.
Photo by Damir Yusupov.
Photo by Pavel Rychkov.
Photo by Damir Yusupov.
Photo by Damir Yusupov.
Photo by Damir Yusupov.
Photo by Pavel Rychkov.
Photo by Damir Yusupov.
Photo by Damir Yusupov.
Photo by Damir Yusupov.
Photo by Damir Yusupov.
Photo by Damir Yusupov.
Photo by Damir Yusupov.
Photo by Damir Yusupov.
Photo by Damir Yusupov.
Photo by Damir Yusupov.
Photo by Damir Yusupov.
Sunday, 14:00
Saturday, 19:00
Friday, 19:00
Thursday, 19:00
Wednesday, 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, 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.