The greatest historical opera by Giacomo Puccini. Like a painter at his easel, Puccini creates a vast canvas of Rome during the Napoleonic wars, recreating the charged atmosphere of the ancient city. The opera achieved instant success with audiences. A drama full of fierce passions and Puccini’s magnificent melodic gift conquered the entire world. Tosca has continued to live on the stages of opera houses around the globe for one hundred and twenty-one years since its premiere, after more than three thousand productions, and after hundreds of sopranos have made their final leap from the parapet of the prison fortress.
“Tosca” is a masterpiece by Giacomo Puccini, based on the play of the same name by Victorien Sardou. In the majestic interiors of Rome’s palaces unfolds the story of love between the opera diva Floria Tosca and her beloved, the painter Mario Cavaradossi, who are drawn by fate into the whirlwind of political intrigue. This great story of love and betrayal, clothed by the Italian composer in the operatic form, has for more than a century continued to stir the hearts of people all over the world.
