TOSCA

In the organizer's words:

In order to recapture the escaped political prisoner Cesare Angelotti, police chief Baron Scarpia takes control of the painter Mario Cavaradossi, who was involved in the escape, and his lover, the opera diva Floria Tosca, who is also highly coveted by Scarpia, and becomes entangled with them in a cruel dance of death involving love, jealousy, torture, cynicism, greed, blackmail, murder and suicide.

Giacomo Puccini's "Tosca", which premiered in Rome in 1900, is a brutal cabinet of cruelties, set to the most emotional music in a veristic, cinematic style and richly colorful, and today - with immortal hits such as "Vissi dʼarte" and "E lucevan le stelle" - is one of the greatest titles in the operatic repertoire. For the Gärtnerplatz premiere, director and stage designer Stefano Poda is reworking his interpretation of the political thriller in a visually stunning way!