TOSCA
Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)
Libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa based on the play "La Tosca" by Victorien Sardou
First performed the 14th of January 1900 at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome
New production of the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence
A coproduction with Opéra national de Lyon
A prima donna must be respected. Because there are years of sacrifice, study, a life spent in a small dark room with a score […] It is a very hard profession. And this is why I am proud to be a prima donna.
Last interview with Maria Callas, April 1976Tosca – the name snaps and blares. It refers to the opera of operas, and the role of roles: the greatest opera singers are consumed by it. Because the work makes theatre out of an opera singer. She will lose her revolutionary lover and her own life because she is sick with jealousy, and movingly pious. Programmed for the first time at the Festival d’Aix, Puccini’s master work will be staged by Christophe Honoré as a melancholic reminder of the fascinating theatrical creature of stage and sound that is this diva, this woman who lives “on art and on love” and on whom time and death have no hold.
Prices: 290€, 200€, 160€, 120€, 80€, 55€, 30€
Young person's tariff: 9€
Family Opera tariffs
Performance available with ticket packages and Premium or Prestige offer
2 hours and 40 minutes with two intervals
Sung in Italien with French and English surtitles
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