Tosca

The performance is not recommended for children under 14.

The point of Puccini's opera Tosca is not that it is set in Rome, nor that it is set in the summer of 1800. The dilemmas, the emotions, the shocking twists and turns of the piece are interesting. What is also unmissable is that the story is framed by the reign of a totalitarian regime in which the chief of police can do anything: arrest without warrant, torture without law, imprison without trial and execute without sentence. The courage, loyalty and inevitable tragedy of the two artists, the singer Tosca and her lover, the painter Mario, are also portrayed in the play, which has a fitting analogy with Budapest in the 1950s, where even the Opera House was the scene of the cult of personality and the dictatorship. There are no direct symbols or historical figures in the new production of Tosca, but one can feel the stifling air of a dark period in which innocent/innocent artists were just as fated to perish as they might have been in the otherwise fictional world of Baron Scarpia.

Source of some of the images used in this production.

Seasonal cast:

Floria Tosca................................ Zsuzsanna Ádám

Mario Cavaradossi..................... László Boldizsár

Baron Scarpia.............................. Péter Kálmán

Cesare Angelotti........................ Géza Gábor

Sekrestyés................................. András Kiss

Spoletta...................................... Tivadar Kiss

Sciarrone / Prison Guard................... Attila Erdős

Conductor: Levente Török