TOSCA
Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) Direction musicale Jean-Yves Ossonce Mise en scène Patrice Caurier et Moshe Leiser Livret de Giuseppe Giacosa et Luigi Illica d’après le drame La Tosca (1887) de Victorien Sardou Créé au théâtre Costanzi de Rome le 14 j
NOUVELLE PRODUCTION
Direction musicale Jean-Yves Ossonce | Mise en scène Patrice Caurier et Moshe Leiser | Décor Christian Fenouillat | Costumes Agostino Cavalca | Lumière Christophe Forey | Nicola Beller-Carbone, Floria Tosca | Giancarlo Monsalve, Mario Cavaradossi | Claudio Otelli, le baron Scarpia | Frédéric Caton, Cesare Angelotti | Erick Freulon, le sacristain | Emanuele Giannino, Spoletta | Guy-Etienne Giot, Sciarrone | Eric Vrain, un geôlier | Emmanuelle de Negri, un berger | Chœur d’Angers Nantes Opéra Direction Xavier Ribes | Maîtrise de la Perverie Direction Gilles Gérard | Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire
vendredi 10 octobre08 | 20:00 | dimanche 12 octobre08 | 14:30
By Giacomo Puccini
Conducted by Jean-Yves Ossonce
Directed by Patrice Caurier and Moshe Leiser
Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica based on Victorien Sardou’s play La Tosca
First performed at Costanzi Theatre in Rome on 14 January 1900 | In Italian with French supertitles.
By situating the action of his opera in Rome in 1800 after the battle of Marengo and the collapse of the Roman republic, Puccini avoids a soppy romance between a passionate and jealous singer and a dreamy, open hearted painter. In the shadow of palaces and churches, and in the labyrinth of religion and politics, there is space for a Scarpia, the chief of police who abuses power and practices torture. Scarpia’s overwhelming desire to possess rather than love and destroy rather than dominate enables him to turn these two young lovers and naïve artists into the choicest prey he has ever captured. Between the brass section’s sounds of victory and a somber Te Deum, the composer brings desire, rage, hate and despair to the lips of his protagonists. Tosca makes us feel pity for ravaged love and fear of man’s violence and cowardice; but also admiration for the strength and solitude of Tosca, a woman who meets her destiny unflinchingly.
"I desire. I pursue the object of my desire,
I feed on it and then I toss it away
So that I may hasten toward a new object of desire."
Scarpia, Tosca
