Tosca at the Costanzi: a postcard from Rome

Gevorg Hakobyan (Scarpia) and Saioa Hernández (Tosca)

Te Deum, Act 1

Act 3 finale

Gregory Kunde (Cavaradossi)

Por Pia Maltri, 16 enero 2025

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“a double-edged sword: the spotlight falls hard on the singing”

Crítica hecha desde Teatro Costanzi, Teatro dell'Opera, Roma el 14 enero 2025

Puccini, Tosca

Teatro dell'Opera di Roma

Michele Mariotti, Dirección

Alessandro Talevi, Dirección de escena

Adolf Hohenstein, Diseño de escena, Diseño de vestuario

Orchestra del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma

Coro del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma

Saioa Hernández, Floria Tosca

Gregory Kunde, Mario Cavaradossi

Gevorg Hakobyan, Baron Scarpia

Luciano Leoni, Cesare Angelotti

Domenico Colaianni, Sacristan

Saverio Fiore, Spoletta

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Pia Maltri, 28th April

With its 1940s setting, Luca Del Fusco’s direction alienates in a new production of Gounod's Shakespeare-inspired opera.

***11

Handel’s Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno returns to Rome

Pia Maltri, 7th April

Robert Carsen’s staging of Handel's oratorio arrives, via Salzburg, in the city where Handel composed it in 1707.

****1

Ariadne in Rome: David Hermann’s Strauss staging highlights contrasts

Pia Maltri, 1st March

In an opera rarely staged in Italy, David Hermann skilfully masters the metatheatrical challenges posed by the libretto to Ariadne auf Naxos.

****1

Abandon all hope: Lucia Ronchetti's Inferno receives Italian premiere

Pia Maltri, 19th February

The Italian premiere of Lucia Ronchetti’s Inferno at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma uses Dante’s original verses, but her score fails to match their beauty.

***11

Livermore’s successful Bohème opens at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma

Pia Maltri, 14th January

Originally staged at the Caracalla Baths in 2014, Davide Livermore’s production comes in from the cold.

****1

Wagner’s Lohengrin finally returns – swanless – to Rome

Pia Maltri, 27th November

Damiano Michieletto is entrusted with the first staging of Lohengrin in Rome for 50 years, but his distracting staging is redeemed by the musical side of things.

***11

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Pia Maltri

Pia first fell head over heels for opera when she was a teenager by listening to recordings of some of the great voices of the past: Maria Callas, Giuseppe Di Stefano, Mirella Freni, Alfredo Kraus. She holds a degree in Italian Literature and she lives in Rome.