Tosca

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by Giacomo Puccini
Melodrama in three acts
Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica after Victorien Sardou
While La Bohème is all poetry and no action, it is said, Tosca is the other way around: all action, 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? Willy Decker's classic production of Puccini's sex-and-crime masterpiece has been a repertoire perennial for over 20 years. This content has been machine translated.