The Greek National Opera’s 2021/22 season will be brought to a close by one of the best-loved operas of all time, Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca, presented at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus as part of the Athens Epidaurus Festival.
Opera diva Floria Tosca is a woman madly in love, and insanely jealous of her lover. Baron Scarpia, an evil man who wields absolute power, takes pleasure in making his victims suffer. Caught between these two is Mario Cavaradossi, Tosca’s lover and a true patriot, who gets sent to his death not for his ideas, but for his relationship with Tosca, whom Scarpia lusts after. The machinations of the plot are perfectly engineered: no-one will escape the traps set by Scarpia.
The unbridled passions of this operatic thriller, which debuted in Rome in 1900, are only accentuated by Puccini’s evocative music. The work was first presented in Greece in 1942 by the GNO, with Maria Callas in the title role.
The narrative architecture of Tosca touches on a series of all-too-human concerns: love and jealousy, debauched lust and loyal friendship. And though death encapsulates this work in many ways, the essence of its plot is in fact the unbearable predicament in which our lead finds herself, left to face a nightmare of a dilemma. The qualities inherent in our heroine help explain why Tosca remains one of the most popular operas in the repertoire to this day. Tosca is the archetypal opera diva when it comes to both how she sings and how she behaves. Her exploits and her emotions lay the very foundations of the quintessential operatic trope that is the self-absorbed opera singer who allows herself to be overpowered by her instincts.
Conductor: Philippe Auguin
Director – Sets – Costumes: Hugo de Ana
Revival director: Katerina Petsatodi
Projection design: Ideogamma SRL – Sergio Metalli
Lighting: Vinicio Cheli
Chorus master: Agathangelos Georgakatos
Children’s chorus master: Konstantina Pitsiakou
With the participation of the Orchestra, Chorus, Children’s Chorus (as part of its educational mission), and Soloists of the GNO
Floria Tosca: Kristīne Opolais / Cellia Costea
Mario Cavaradossi: Ramón Vargas / Giorgio Berrugi
Scarpia: Dimitri Platanias / Tassis Christoyannis
As part of the Athens & Epidaurus Festival 2022.
Conductor: Philippe Auguin. Director: Hugo de Ana. Soloists Kristīne Opolais, Cellia Costea, Ramón Vargas, Giorgio Berrugi, Dimitri Platanias and more.
Ticket Details
VIP 100€, 85€ • Zone Α΄ 60€ • Zone Β΄ 55€ • Zone C΄ 45€ • Persons with Disabilities 15€ • Upper Tier 25€ • Multi-Child Families 55€, 50€, 40€, 20€ • Children 42,50€, 15€ • Unemployed 30€, 27,50€, 22,50€, 12,50€ • Students/ Art School Students/ Group 15€ • Special Price 50€, 42,50€, 30€, 27,50€, 22,50€, 12,50€
Tickets for Tosca can be booked in advance from Friday, 17 June 2022 via GNO Box Office at the SNFCC, Athens Festival Box Offices, and online via aefestival.gr and viva.gr.
When
From 28 July to 31 July 2022