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Singer

Soprano

Barbara Haveman

Floria Tosca

Isabelle Kabatu

Tenor

Marc Laho

Mario Cavaradossi

Calin Bratescu

Baritone

Ruggero Raimondi

Baron Scarpia

Pierre-Yves Pruvot

Bass

Roger Joakim

Cesare Angelotti

Laurent Kubla

The sacristan

Giovanni Iovino

Spoletta

Marc Tissons

Sciarrone

Conductor

Paolo Arrivabeni

Cyril Englebert

Stage director

Claire Servais

Costume designer

Michel Fresnay

Set designer

Carlo Centolavigna

Lighting designer

Olivier Wéry

Opéra Royal de Wallonie - Liège

Others

Choeur de l'Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège

Orchestra

Royal Opera of Wallonia Orchestra

Tosca

Liège

Belgium

Théâtre Royal de Liège

Petit Théâtre

Desire, power, and passion take center stage in the Opéra Royal de Wallonie’s 2014 production of Puccini’s incomparable masterpiece Tosca. The brilliant three-act melodrama was staged by Claire Servais and featured Paolo Arrivabeni as music director. Dutch soprano Barbara Haveman is the desperate Tosca to acclaimed Italian bass-baritone Ruggero Raimondi’s evil Scarpia.

Set in Rome in the year 1800, this startlingly realistic tale of love and politics unfolds around the figure of Scarpia, the city’s terrifying chief of police. Infused with an addictive mixture of action and passion, Puccini’s opera of unbounded lyricism and luscious orchestration sets the text of a libretto judged by its time to be “vulgar and melodramatic”.

Tosca Puccini

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