Opera

Tosca

26, 27, 28, 30 April 2024

The opera

Comunale Nouveau

Production: A production of Teatro Comunale di Bologna
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Power that crushes desires and ideals. Religion mixed with politics and used as a tool of oppression. La Tosca, Sardou’s drama set in papal Rome on the day of the battle of Marengo (14 June 1800), had struck Verdi, but by then it was the turn of a new generation. It was Puccini who set to music the love of the diva Tosca for the painter Cavaradossi, with his Napoleonic sympathies, and the abuses of the chief of police, Baron Scarpia, a «bigoted satyr» identified with a theme — not by chance built on the interval known as the diabolus in musica — that pervades the opera from the first bars. A dense orchestral web interwoven with the voices tightens an action that allows few, strategic releases of tension. Above all, the moment when Tosca asks God how she has deserved such pain («Vissi d’arte»): out of that stillness the diva in love finds the resolve to become a tragic and revolutionary heroine, a tyrant-slayer and suicide who challenges Scarpia to a last reckoning, «before God».

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