Arena di Verona Festival 2023: Tosca

Synopsis

It is an event that attracts thousands of music lovers to Verona every summer: the opera season in the ancient Roman Arena. Nearly 22,000 spectators regularly fill the mphitheater for the performances. The dream couple of opera, Sonya Yoncheva and Vittorio Grigòlo, returns to the breathtaking open-air stage, to perform Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca. Bulgarian soprano Sonya Yoncheva is “one of the best Toscas currently singing” and Vittorio Grigòlo “the most Italian Cavaradossi we know. With lots of wonderful melting, elegant and nonchalant full of triumphant greatness a triumph all along the line” (Online Merker). The captivating staging by Argentine director Hugo de Ana, who masterfully exploits the amphitheatre’s vast space by placing huge elements on the stage that are reminiscent of or borrowed from the locations of the action, makes the opera a “spectacle of monumental opulence” (Online Merker). “A Tosca to relish!” Artesnews.it

Additional Info

• No: A00050108
• Composer: Giacomo Puccini
• Conductor: Francesco Ivan Ciampa
• Orchestra: Orchestra dell’Arena di Verona
• Artists: Sonya Yoncheva, Vittorio Grigolo, Roman Burdenko, Giorgi Manoshvili, Coro dell’Arena di Verona
• Production year: 2023
• Run time: 02:14:00
• Director: Stage Director: Hugo de Ana
• Producers: UNITEL, ZDF, ARTE, Fondazione Arena di Verona
• Format: 4K