DVD + Blu-Ray:
Tosca

Yoncheva and Grigolo return to the breathtaking Arena di Verona to perform Puccini's Tosca. A standing ovation production by Hugo de Ana.

It is an event that attracts thousands of music lovers to Verona every summer: the opera season in the ancient Roman Arena. Nearly 22,000 spectators regularly fill the amphitheater for the performances. The dream couple of opera, Sonya Yoncheva and Vittorio Grigolo, returns to the breathtaking open-air stage, to perform Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca.

Bulgarian soprano Sonya Yoncheva is “one of the best Toscas currently singing” and Vittorio Grigolo “the most Italian Cavaradossi we know. With lots of wonderful melting, elegant and nonchalant full of triumphant greatness a triumph all along the line” (Online Merker). The captivating staging by Argentine director Hugo de Ana, who masterfully exploits the amphitheatre’s vast space by placing huge elements on the stage that are reminiscent of or borrowed from the locations of the action, makes the opera a “spectacle of monumental opulence” (Online Merker). “A Tosca to relish!” (Artesnews.it) "standing ovation Tosca at the Arena di Verona" (Operalife).

Original title Tosca
Composer Giacomo Puccini
Genre Opera
Soloist Sonya Yoncheva, Vittorio Grigolo, Roman Burdenko, Carlo Bosi, Giorgi Manoshvili
Orchestra / Band Orchestra of the Arena di Verona
Choir Chorus of the Arena di Verona
Conductor Francesco Ivan Ciampa
Stage Director Hugo de Ana
Recording location Arena di Verona
Recording date June 2023
Duration 134 mins
Production Company A co-production of UNITEL and ZDF in cooperation with ARTE and Fondazione Arena di Verona