Salzburg Easter Festival 2018: Tosca

Synopsis

Anja Harteros excels in the title role of Michael Sturminger’s cinematic staging of Puccini’s “Tosca”, the centrepiece of Salzburg Easter Festival. Aleksandrs Antoņenko compellingly portrays Cavaradossi, while Ludovic Tézier is a thrillingly malevolent Scarpia. Christian Thielemann leads the Staatskapelle Dresden. “Tosca” is a political thriller with a heart-breaking love story that gives a vivid account of the harassment of artists, political persecution, torture and arbitrary executions. In Salzburg it is set in the Mafiosi world of modern day Rome and is “the perfect thriller … reminiscent of Scorsese’s ‘Goodfellas’” (Kleine Zeitung), a “film noir” (FAZ).

Additional Info

• No: A04050088
• Composer: Giacomo Puccini
• Conductor: Christian Thielemann
• Orchestra: Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden
• Artists: Anja Harteros, Aleksandrs Antonenko, Ludovic Tézier, Andrea Mastroni
• Production year: 2018
• Run time: 02:02:00
• Director: Stage Director: Michael Sturminger
• Producers: ORF/3sat, NHK and Unitel, in Association with Salzburg Easter Festival
• Format: 4K