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Puccini: Tosca from Salzburg Easter Festival

Superstar Anja Harteros excels in the title role of Michael Sturminger’s cinematic staging of Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca at the Salzburg Easter Festival.

Premiered in 1900 with huge success, Puccini’s “melodramma” Tosca is a political thriller with a heart-breaking love story. With his gripping opening scene, stage director Michael Sturminger sets the tone for a cinematic, richly detailed Tosca which is set in the Mafiosi world of modern day Rome and which is “the perfect thriller … reminiscent of Scorsese’s ‘Goodfellas’” (Kleine Zeitung), a “film noir” (FAZ).

In this production soprano Anja Harteros is “a phenomenal Tosca!” (Kurier), “unparalleled in the world” (Der Standard), Aleksandrs Antonenko is “a Cavaradossi of superlatives” while Ludovic Tézier portrays one of the most fascinating brutal persons in opera history The Staatskapelle Dresden under Christian Thielemann „show again that he is not only a master of German repertoire but also strikes the right note in Italian repertoire.“ (Focus)

Original title Puccini: Tosca from Salzburg Easter Festival
Genre Opera
Recording location Salzburg, Grosses Festspielhaus, March 21 + 24, April 2, 2018
Duration 120 mins
Video format 4K/UHD
Production Company A production of UNITEL in co-production with ORF, 3sat and NHK, in cooperation with Osterfestspiele Salzburg
Composer Giacomo Puccini
Orchestra / Band Staatskapelle Dresden
Conductor Christian Thielemann
Choir Salzburger Bachchor, Salzburger Festspiele, Theater Kinderchor
Stage Director Michael Sturminger
Soloist Anja Harteros, Aleksandrs Antonenko, Ludovic Tézier, Andrea Mastroni