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Tosca

Wroclaw Opera, Wroclaw, Poland
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Important Info
Type: Opera
City: Wroclaw, Poland
Starts at: 18:00
Acts: 3
Duration: 2h 45min
Sung in: Italian
Titles in: Polish,English
Cast
Performers
Tenor: Roberto Alagna (Mario Cavaradossi)
Soprano: Aleksandra Kurzak (Floria Tosca)
Choir: Choir of the Wroclaw Opera
Conductor: Georgio Croci
Baritone: Mikołaj Zalasiński (Baron Scarpia)
Orchestra: Wroclaw Opera Orchestra
Creators
Composer: Giacomo Puccini
Librettist: Giuseppe Giacosa
Librettist: Luigi Illica
Director: Michael Gieleta
Dramaturge: Victorien Sardou
Overview

The extremely compact action takes us to Rome in 1800. It is there - in the courtyard of Castel Sant'Angelo - that we witness an intrigue that turns into a tragedy out of love. Director Michael Gieleta and set designer Gary McCann move the action of the work to the 1950s. Despite this, the producers faithfully present the historical places of the Eternal City with all the richness of art and architecture of past centuries.

History knows many cases when a song wins the hearts of the audience, but critics are disgusted. This is also the case of Tosca . After the evening of January 14, 1900, during which it was presented for the first time at the Teatro Constanzi in Rome, a reviewer of the Warsaw "Echo Muzyczny, Teatralny i Artystyczne" wrote: "The opera itself, I don't think it will hold together for a long time." This was one of the milder critics' reviews of Tosca , but viewers had a different opinion. Already in the first act, the tenor had to give an encore of Cavaradossi's aria, and Puccini was forced to appear on stage. The Te Deum ending the first act, Tosca's aria Vissi d'arte, vissi d'amore , was also repeated , and from the last act - Cavaradossi's aria and the final duet. The composer was summoned more than ten times. The next performances were even better and Tosca began her triumphant march through the world (...)

Tosca was created in the times of verismo, a trend from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, which, thanks to mainly Italian composers, was an attempt to translate into music the assumptions of a trend strongly present in literature. called naturalism. Therefore, themes from the lives of ordinary people, dramatic conflicts were sought for the opera, expression was strengthened to break the sweetness of the melody, and they wanted to show true reality. Giacomo Puccini, however, was too great an individual to be confined to one pigeonhole, even though Tosca is partly a veristic opera. The singing serves a psychological character, and there is more brutality than the viewer is accustomed to.

Jacek Marczyński

History
Premiere of this production: 14 January 1900, Teatro Costanzi, Rome

Tosca is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 14 January 1900. The work, based on Victorien Sardou's 1887 French-language dramatic play, La Tosca, is a melodramatic piece set in Rome in June 1800, with the Kingdom of Naples's control of Rome threatened by Napoleon's invasion of Italy. It contains depictions of torture, murder and suicide, as well as some of Puccini's best-known lyrical arias.

Venue Info

Wroclaw Opera - Wroclaw
Location   Świdnicka 35

The Wrocław Opera (Polish: Opera Wrocławska) is an opera company and opera house in the Old Town of Wrocław, Poland. The opera house was opened in 1841 and up to 1945 was named after the city's then German name, Oper Breslau.

An Italian opera company was established in Breslau in 1725 by Antonio Maria Peruzzi, following a split with Antonio Denzio with whom he had collaborated in the Peruzzi-Denzio company at the Sporck theatre in Prague. The Theater on the Cold Ashes was opened in 1755 by Franz von Schuch (1716–1764) and performed operas till his death in 1764. His son, Schuch the younger, brought the first operas of Johann Adam Hiller to the Theodor Lobe's theatre in Breslau in 1770. His successor Johann Christian Wäser introduced more, including local Singspiel translations of works by Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny. In 1804 Abbé Vogler invited Carl Maria von Weber to conduct the Breslau Opera when he was only 18. The opera house was constructed in 1841 to designs by Carl Gotthard Langhans, supervised by his son Carl Ferdinand. It was remodeled twice after fires in 1865 by Carl Johann Lüdecke and 1871 by Karl Schmidt. After the first fire, Theodor Lobe in 1867 invited the young conductor Ernst Schuch (1846–1914) to begin his career at the theatre.

After World War I notable productions during the interwar years included Schönberg's Die glückliche Hand (1928). The music directors in this period included Franz von Hoesslin who was forced to leave the city, and Germany, in 1928.

Following the inclusion of Breslau into Poland in 1945, the Lower Silesian Opera made its inaugural performance in Polish Wrocław on September 8, 1945, with Stanisław Moniuszko's Halka directed by Stanislaw Drabik. From 1945 to 1950 the building housed not only the Opera, but also theater, puppet theater and operetta performances. In 1997 the Director Ewa Michnik undertook the idea to use other venues during the complete rehab of the building (1997–2006). She created a series of mega-productions that took place around the city including the Centennial Hall, The National Museum courtyard and banks of the Oder River. This tradition became a trademark of Wrocław Opera and continues to this day. The super productions are famous for interesting surroundings, attractive decorations and guest actors. The Opera also organized Wagner festivals building on the tradition of Wagner's involvement with Wrocław Opera. The current repertoire of the Opera House includes Kot w butach (Puss in Boots) by Bogdan Pawłowski and Matka czarnoskrzydłych snów by Hanna Kulenty.

In 2014, the opera house received 105,451 visitors.

In 2017, Leszek Możdżer's opera Immanuel Kant based on the works of Thomas Bernhard premiered at the Wrocław Opera.

Important Info
Type: Opera
City: Wroclaw, Poland
Starts at: 18:00
Acts: 3
Duration: 2h 45min
Sung in: Italian
Titles in: Polish,English
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