Salzburg Easter Festival 2018: Tosca

Anja Harteros excels in the title role of Michael Sturminger’s cinematic staging of Puccini’s “Tosca”, the centrepiece of Salzburg Easter Festival. Aleksandrs Antonenko 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).

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