Tosca: Riga Opera Festival

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Giacomo Puccini's Tosca is a tale about the battle between higher ideals and desires, the new and the old, and true love and true hate. Experience this thrilling production at the Riga Opera Festival.

In this production by director Dmitri Bertman, the colorful interiors of Rome set the stage for the passions felt by the opera diva Floria Tosca and the artist Cavaradossi, as well as for the complex relationship between Tosca and secret‐police chief Scarpia, which, in the last act, plays out in an environment certainly atypical of Puccini's operas: Tosca's subconscious. Giacomo Puccini’s opera Tosca is an intense tale of the battle between higher ideas and desires, the new and the old, and true love and true hate.

The Riga Opera Festival, founded in 1998 as the first festival of its size and scale in Eastern Europe, has already become a valuable tradition. The festival is highly anticipated by both Latvian audiences and opera‐lovers from abroad who form the biggest part of all Riga Opera Festival’s visitors. Every summer, the festival marks the end of the Latvian National Opera’s performance season with an overview of the best moments of the previous year, offering fans a chance to relive their favourite scenes or see what they’ve missed.

Production
Conductor: Modestas Pitrenas   
Stage Director: Dmitry Bertman   
Set Designer: Andris Freibergs   
Costume Designer: Kristīne Pasternaka   

Cast
Floria Tosca: Liene Kinča   
Mario Cavaradossi : Andris Ludvigs, George Oniani   
Scarpia: Jānis Apeinis, Samsons Izjumovs   
Cesare Angelotti: NN   
A Sacristan: NN   
Spoletta: NN   
Sciarrone: NN   
A Gaoler: NN