Tosca
- Location:
- Opernhaus Stuttgart, Oberer Schloßgarten 6, 70173 Stuttgart
- Date
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While La Bohème is all poetry and no plot, it is said, Tosca is the other way around: all plot, no poetry. Even the librettist Giuseppe Giacosa considered Sardou's original to be completely unsuitable for an opera. "What prompted Puccini to deal with such a real and brutal subject, whose actors are little more than puppets entangled in a highly intelligent, cleverly conceived plot?" asked the music critic Mosco Carner. Perhaps exactly that? For over 20 years, Willy Decker's classic production of Puccini's sex-and-crime masterpiece has been a repertoire perennial.
Musical drama in three acts
Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica after Victorien Sardou
by Giacomo Puccini
Act I: approx. 45 mins.
Intermission: approx. 30 min.
II./III. Act III: approx. 1 hr. 10 min.