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Tosca at The State Opera

Dates: 10/6/2012 - 6/19/2013

📍 Theatre: The State Opera


Wilsonova 4
Praha 1, Prague

Phone: +420 224 901 448

Tickets: 200 K? - 1 200 K?

Running Time: 2 hours and 45 minutes with 2 intermissions


Giacomo Puccini had been intrigued by Victorien Sardou’s drama La Tosca ever since 1889, when in Milan he saw a performance featuring the celebrated actress Sarah Bernhardt. Yet the complicated negotiations between his publisher Giulio Ricordi and Sardou, as well as his working on the operas Manon Lescaut and La bohéme, delayed his composing Tosca, which he would only complete in 1899. The world premiere took place at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 14 January 1900 and was a huge success, even though Gustav Mahler said it was a “masterful patchwork”, and Richard Strauss castigated it in even harsher terms.

Nevertheless, today the opera about the famous singer Tosca, her lover (the painter Cavaradossi) and the malicious chief of police Scarpio, set in 1800 in Italy at the time of Napoleon’s war against Austria, is one of the most popular operas worldwide. Our current production makes use of Josef Svoboda’s legendary sets dating from the period of the Fifth of May Grand Opera (today the Estates Theatre). A faithful copy of the 1947 sets, created by means of modern technology, has contributed to the production’s great popularity at the present time.

Cast and Creative Team for Tosca at The State Opera

Libretto: Giuseppe Giacosa, Luigi Illica
Conductor: František Drs, Ondrej Lenárd, Ji?í Štrunc
Stage director: Martin Otava
Sets: Josef Svoboda
Costumes: Josef Jelínek
Chorus master: Tvrtko Karlovi?, Adolf Melichar

Floria Tosca
Anda-Louise Bogza
Csilla Boross
Jordanka Derilova
Szilvia Rálik
Christina Vasileva
Mario Cavaradossi
Tomáš ?erný
Igor Jan
Michal Lehotský
Nikolaj Višnjakov
Emmanuel di Villarosa
Miroslav Dvorský
Baron Scarpia
Miguelangelo Cavalcanti
Richard Haan
Jakub Kettner
Ji?í Sulženko
Vladimír Chmelo
Cesare Angelotti
Lukáš Hynek-Krämer
Oleg Korotkov
Old?ich K?íž
Ladislav Mlejnek
Sagrestano
Milan Bürger
Lukáš Hynek-Krämer
Aleš Hendrych
Spoletta
Lubomír Havlák
Ji?í Hruška
Dalibor Janota
Martin Šrejma
Sciarrone
Miloš Horák
Old?ich K?íž
Roman Vocel
Shepherd
Erika Jarkovská
So?a Koczianová
Gabriela Pešinová
Jailor
Rudolf Prázný
František Ryšavý

News About Tosca at The State Opera

TOSCA Comes to the National Theatre in Prague Next Month
TOSCA Comes to the National Theatre in Prague Next Month
July 30, 2024 The singer Floria Tosca, who is even invited to the royal court, and the painter Mario Cavaradossi are respected and adored artists, yet their standing does not safeguard them against the malicious police chief Baron Scarpia.

About the Theatre

The State Opera

Wilsonova 4
Praha 1, Prague

Phone: +420 224 901 448

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The State Opera
Wilsonova 4, Praha 1, Prague

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