Tosca

What is worth living and dying for — for love, for art, for freedom? This question is at the heart of Tosca, and here, in a unique way, musical highlights with a gripping plot and historical events with archetypes of the opera stage. During a single fateful night, the audience follows the story of singer Floria Tosca, painter Mario Cavaradossi and unscrupulous police chief Scarpia, which ends fatally for all three. The historically detailed production by Boleslaw Barlog has featured the biggest stars in opera history for over 50 years. In the first series of this season, this chronicle includes Aleksandra Kurzak, who has already performed Tosca at the New York MET or at the Royal Opera in London, and Roberto Alagna, who demonstrates his exceptional tenor with another role at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. Following the sudden death of Antonino Fogliani, the young Italian conductor Leonardo Sini, who has repeatedly appeared as a Puccini interpreter since his international breakthrough as winner of the Sir Georg Solti Conducting Competition in 2017.

Melodrama in three acts by Giacomo Puccini Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica based on the drama La Tosca by Victorien Sardou Premiered on January 14, 1900 in Rome Premiere at the Deutsche Oper Berlin on April 13, 1969