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  • Giacomo Puccini, Tosca
    • Overture
    • Act I
    • Act II
    • Act III

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opera Puccini's Tosca Claire Servais (stage director), Paolo Arrivabeni (conductor) – With Barbara Haveman (Tosca), Marc Laho (Cavaradossi)...

Claire Servais (stage director), Paolo Arrivabeni (conductor) – With Barbara Haveman (Tosca), Marc Laho (Cavaradossi)...

Puccini's Tosca Claire Servais (stage director), Paolo Arrivabeni (conductor) – With Barbara Haveman (Tosca), Marc Laho (Cavaradossi)...

About

Desire, power, and passion take center stage in the Opéra Royal de Wallonie’s 2014 production of Puccini’s incomparable masterpiece Tosca. The brilliant three-act melodrama was staged by Claire Servais and featured Paolo Arrivabeni as music director. Dutch soprano Barbara Haveman is the desperate Tosca to acclaimed Italian bass-baritone Ruggero Raimondi’s evil Scarpia.

Set in Rome in the year 1800, this startlingly realistic tale of love and politics unfolds around the figure of Scarpia, the city’s terrifying chief of police. Infused with an addictive mixture of action and passion, Puccini’s opera of unbounded lyricism and luscious orchestration sets the text of a libretto judged by its time to be “vulgar and melodramatic”.

Photo: © Opéra Royal de Wallonie

Associated event

Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège

Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège

Cast

  • Claire Servais | Stage director
  • Michel Fresnay | Costumes
  • Carlo Centolavigna | Set designer
  • Olivier Wery | Lighting
  • Barbara Haveman | Floria Tosca
  • Marc Laho | Mario Cavaradossi
  • Ruggero Raimondi | Il Barone Scarpia
  • Roger Joakim | Cesare Angelotti
  • Laurent Kubla | Il Sagrestano
  • Giovanni Iovino | Spoletta
  • Marc Tissons | Sciarrone
  • Pierre Gathier | Un Carciere
  • Chorus of the Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège
  • Orchestra of the Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège
  • Paolo Arrivabeni | Conductor

Program

  • Giacomo Puccini, Tosca
    • Overture
    • Act I
    • Act II
    • Act III

Details

  • Directed by:
    • Arnaud Lalanne
  • Venue: Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège (Liège, Belgium)
  • Production date: 2014
  • Duration: 2 h 05 min
  • Available version(s): EN
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