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Malin Byström as Floria Tosca and Gevorg Hakobyan as Il barone Scarpia © Marco Borggreve
Giacomo PUCCINI (1858–1924) Tosca Opera in three acts (1900) Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica after the play La Tosca by Victorien Sardou Malin Byström, Soprano • Joshua Guerrero, Tenor Gevorg Hakobyan, Baritone Chorus of Dutch National Opera Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra Lorenzo Viotti, Conductor • Barrie Kosky, Stage director 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 its feet by Kosky’s stunning production’ ( Opera News ).
2.110752 Picture format: NTSC 16:9 Sound format: PCM stereo and DTS 5.1 Language: Italian Subtitles: Italian, English, German, French, Dutch, Japanese, Korean Region code: 0 (worldwide) No. of disc/s: 1 (DVD 9) Release Date: 14 Apr 2023 Key Features: • Tosca is the first of Dutch National Opera’s short Puccini cycle by director Barrie Kosky. • Director Barrie Kosky is one of the most internationally sought-after stage directors of today presenting productions all over the world. In 2016 he was named Director of the Year by Opernwelt and in 2017 Kosky’s production of Saul won six out of seven categories at the Helpmann Awards, including Best Opera and Best Opera Direction. In 2018 Kosky’s Bayreuth Festival production of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg was announced as Production of the Year by Opernwelt . In 2020 he was the recipient of a Sidney Myer Performing Arts Award, in recognition of his unique and influential contribution to the Australian Arts world. • BUY NOW!
Also available on Blu-ray Video: NBD0166V Picture format: HD 16:9 Sound format: PCM stereo and DTS-MA 5.1 Language: Italian Subtitles: Italian, English, German, French, Dutch, Japanese, Korean Region code: A, B, C No. of disc/s: 1 (BD 50) Release Date: 14 Apr 2023
Opera News commended Malin Byström ’s ‘radiant and polished singing’ as Floria Tosca. In a previous review of another production it said that ‘Byström … made the character’s passage from sinner to saint fluid and believable. She commands a pristine soprano of distinctive colour and strength…’ ‘Armenian baritone Gevorg Hakobyan grew into a terrifying Scarpia. Stripped by Kosky of savoir faire and elegant cynicism, Hakobyan offered a harsh, almost plebeian approach to the character that made him a horrifying adversary for Byström's Tosca.’ Opera News also wrote that ‘Joshua Guerrero's Cavaradossi showed an impressive, more metallic timbre.’
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Companion Titles – Giacomo Puccini, Composer
Barrie Kosky, Stage director
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