Puccini: Tosca (Scala, 2019)

Opera in three acts, in Italian, with Hungarian surtitle Preface 0:00 Act 1 9:08 Act 2 59:34 Act 3 1:49:22 Conductor - Riccardo Chailly Floria Tosca - Anna Netrebko Mario Cavaradossi - Francesco Meli Scarpia - Luca Salsi Sagrestano - Alfonso Antoniozzi Cesare Angelotti - Carlo Cigni Spoletta - Carlo Bosi Sciarrone - Giulio Mastrototaro A Jailer - Ernesto Panariello A Shepherd boy - Gianluigi Sartori Director - Davide Livermore With the new production of Tosca in Roger Parker’s critical edition for Ricordi, Music Director Riccardo Chailly continues his project of presenting Giacomo Puccini’s operas in the light of the latest musicological research, with which he has already brought Turandot, La fanciulla del West, Madama Butterfly and Manon Lescaut back to La Scala. While over the course of the decades the work of Gioachino Rossini and Giuseppe Verdi has been re-evaluated thanks to critical editions and the examination of variants, Giacomo Puccini’s masterpieces have so far been presented in versions that often unwittingly bore the incrustations of tradition; hence the importance of this proposal. However, this opening Tosca will be above all a celebration of music – thanks also to the superb voices of Anna Netrebko, Francesco Meli and Luca Salsi – and of theatre, with the return of director Davide Livermore and set designers Giò Forma, already greatly acclaimed for Attila of 7 December 2018.