Gevorg Hako - Tosca - BLU-RAY

?Tosca is a melodrama of love, betrayal and death set in the revolutionary unrest of 1800. The story concerns the opera singer Floria Tosca who tries to save her lover, the painter Mario Cavaradossi, from the brutal chief of police, Scarpia. Through-composed and expertly orchestrated it contains some of Puccini's best-known lyrical arias and remains one of his most performed operas. In this 2022 production, an eminent cast is directed by the acclaimed Australian director Barrie Kosky - 'the Amsterdam audience was completely swept off it's feet by Kosky's stunning production' (Opera News).

Premiered in 1900 with huge success, Puccini's InchmelodrammaInch Tosca is a political thriller with a heart-breaking love story. With his gripping opening scene, stage director Michael Sturminger sets the tone for a cinematic, richly detailed Tosca which is set in the Mafiosi world of modern day Rome and which is Inchthe perfect thriller... reminiscent of Scorsese's 'Goodfellas'Inch (Kleine Zeitung), a Inchfilm noirInch (FAZ). In this production soprano Anja Harteros is Incha phenomenal Tosca!Inch (Kurier), Inchunparalleled in the worldInch (Der Standard) and Aleksandrs Antonenko is Incha Cavaradossi of superlativesInch (Kieler Nachrichten). The Staatskapelle Dresden under Christian Thielemann Inchshow again that he is not only a master of German repertoire but also strikes the right note in Italian repertoire.Inch (Focus)

This new production of Tosca from Maggio Musicale Fiorentino is set in the late 1920s. Puccini's 'Roman Opera' sees a city bathed in majesty but also curdled by eroticism and sadism, where sartorial elegance and pathological violence co-exist. Taking visual clues from Bernardo Bertolucci's cinematic masterpiece, Il conformista, the cast is led by the passionate Vanessa Goikoetxea and features the magnetic Alexey Markov in the role of Scarpia. Daniele Gatti directs a performance praised for it's 'courageous and surprising' impact.