Organization

Conductor

Stefano Ranzani

Lighting designer

Jens Klotzsche

Chorus master

Jonathan Becker

Dramaturge

Juliane Schunke

Singer

Soprano

Jennifer Rowley

Floria Tosca

Tenor

Dmytro Popov

Mario Cavaradossi

Baritone

Markus Marquardt

Baron Scarpia

Tilmann Rönnebeck

The sacristan

Gerald Hupach

Spoletta

Bass

Ilya Silchuk

Sciarrone

Rupert Grössinger

A jailer

Others

Sächsischer Staatsopernchor Dresden

Orchestra

Staatskapelle Dresden

Italian

Semper Essenz

Dresden

Germany

Semperoper

Semper Essenz: Tosca Puccini

Public

Tosca

German

English

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The celebrated singer Tosca lives only for art, until political intrigues suddenly break into the life of the artist and her lover, the painter Cavaradossi: When he hides the political refugee Angelotti, he is targeted by the unscrupulous police chief Scarpia, who has long since cast an eye on Tosca. In order to save Cavaradossi, Tosca must not only betray Angelotti, but also surrender to Scarpia. Hardly any other opera interweaves political arbitrariness and personal passions as closely as Puccini's »Tosca« from 1900.

The concertante short version concentrates the plot on the chamber play-like scenes of the play and the deadly triangular relationship between Tosca, Cavaradossi and Scarpia. The magnificent concert hall of the Staatskapelle is transformed into the church, where Cavaradossi sings the beauty of his beloved and the choir sings the Te Deum; it also becomes the office of the police chief, where Scarpia consumes herself after the singer and Tosca sings about her life for art and love; and finally to the plateau of Castel Sant'Angelo, where Cavaradossi sees the sun rise one last time full of desperation.

Semper Essenz by Puccini, From (2022/2022), Conductor Stefano Ranzani, Semperoper, Dresden, Germany

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