G. Puccini: Tosca: Festspielhaus Baden‐Baden

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Seize this opportunity at the beautiful Festspielhaus Baden‐Baden in Baden‐Baden to experience the breathtaking opear performance of Puccini's Tosca.

Tosca

Tosca is an opera in three acts written by Giacomo Puccini and based on Victorien Sardou’s melodramatic play La Tosca 1887. The plot is centered around political and romantic affairs set in Rome in 1800. Despite the fact that some Puccini’s colleagues advised him not to adapt the play for an opera probably, due to a large amount of dialogs, scenes of torture and murder, the composer managed to get the right for the work and produced this marvelous opera that has been so much‐loved by the audience since its premiere in Rome in 1900.

Giacomo Puccini

Giacomo Puccini was an Italian opera composer of the late 19th century. He was considered one of the greatest composers of the Italian Opera, second only to Verdi. His early works were characterised by features of the traditional 19th century romantic Italian opera. Later, his style developed into the realistic verismo style, which inspired him to write his most famous masterpieces and became one of the leading exponents of the style. His most renowned works La bohème 1896, Tosca 1900, Madama Butterfly 1904, and Turandot 1924, all are popular operas played in the most prestigious venues of the classical world.