Scarpia stabbed, Tosca smothered by Livermore’s La Scala staging

Von Mark Pullinger, 08 Dezember 2019

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“Chailly was painting in oils, scraping out new textures with his palette knife”

Rezensierte Veranstaltung: Teatro alla Scala, Mailand, am 7 Dezember 2019

Puccini, Tosca

Teatro alla Scala

Riccardo Chailly, Musikalische Leitung

Davide Livermore, Regie

Giò Forma, Bühnenbild

Gianluca Falaschi, Kostüme

Antonio Castro, Licht

Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala

Coro del Teatro alla Scala

D-Wok, Video

Anna Netrebko, Floria Tosca

Francesco Meli, Mario Cavaradossi

Luca Salsi, Baron Scarpia

Carlo Cigni, Cesare Angelotti

Carlo Bosi, Spoletta

Giulio Mastrototaro, Sciarrone

Alfonso Antoniozzi, Mesner

Gianluigi Sartori, Shepherd Boy

Ernesto Panariello, Gefängiswärter

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Mark Pullinger

Mark has been a Bachtrack editor since 2014. He is also an experienced critic, writing hundreds of reviews for the site, as well as a freelancer writing for other magazines and newspapers. He also writes programme notes and blogs on Substack. Mark has a particular passion for the operas of Verdi as well as Russian and French repertoire. Outside the concert hall and opera house, Mark enjoys cooking and travel and is probably at his happiest let loose in a French patisserie or a Viennese coffee house.