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Tosca

Giacomo Puccini (1858 – 1924)

09
Sat
November
19:30 - 22:45
D prices: € 144.00 / 112.00 / 82.00 / 50.00 / 30.00
Information about the work

Melodramma in 3 acts
Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica
based on the drama LA TOSCA by Victorien Sardou
First performed on 14th January 1900 in Rome
Premiered at the Deutsche Oper Berlin on 13th April 1969

3 Stunden 15 Minuten / Zwei Pausen

In italienischer Sprache mit deutschen und englischen Übertiteln

Pre-performance lecture (in German): 45 minutes prior to each performance

empfohlen ab 13 Jahren
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Der Kinderchor wird unterstützt Dobolino e. V.

09
Sat
November
19:30 - 22:45
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About the work
As in all operas by Puccini, TOSCA is an illustration of how human attentiveness and pleasures of the palate can be mutually dependent if the composer’s artistic intentions become a benchmark for directorial interpretation. Puccini’s humane attentiveness is essentially dependent on an outcry and/or a sense of resignation. The pity inherent in his music does not content itself with abstract gestures; it wants to unsettle, to bring about change. Out of the “small things” named by Puccini as the source of his inspiration and the focus of his music “big things” grow – as long as we want them. Puccini’s choice of material owes something, directly or indirectly, to the spirit of Zola, Gorki and Hauptmann, and the link between that material and his compositional style places him likewise as a direct descendant of Verdi and an exponent of verismo. He was also known as an admirer of Wagner, although a Wagner imitator he assuredly was not.

It was more a case of a personal connection based on selected achievements of both composers. Grappling with the bundled subtleties of harmony and nuances of instrumentation, he still uncovered a voice from the orchestral cross-hatching and gave it an accompagnato that was considerably more fractured and refined than the radical and laconic Verdi was wonted to do. This is also a reflection of the aesthetic themes of TOSCA. The music exudes brutality, intelligence and exactitude but also tenderness, sentimentality and a dream-like quality. Puccini set great store on musical precision, social awareness, a tactical heroism, the poetics of the seemingly hum-drum, the contrast between aloofness and passionate involvement, and following his true north.

Scarpia, the police chief, Floria Tosca, a singer, and Cavaradossi, a painter, are all bent on achieving their own personal forms of liberty. Scarpia’s is all about asserting his idea of power; Cavaradossi’s is that of the freedom fighter seeking systemic change; Tosca’s is the release that comes with private, straightforward, unbounded love. At a pivotal time of major upheaval these urges assume a heightened significance. Depending on the stance that we see ourselves and Puccini in at that moment in time, TOSCA either remains a grisly love story or ends up as a portent of “freedom”. In any event, each of the three very different protagonists pay for their part in this triangular clinch with their lives. There is nothing redemptive about their deaths, which are grim, violent and definitive.

About the production
In 1987 Götz Friedrich addressed Boleslaw Barlog’s straight production from 1969 with its stark, undemanding sets and delivered a version that took Puccini’s declared intentions literally: the mutual dependence of human attentiveness and pleasures of the palate is inspired by the music and becomes a springboard into the stage interpretation of the work.

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Adventskalender in der Tischlerei: Das 9. Fensterchen

Heute in der Tischlerei: „Ding Dong! Merrily on High“
mit den VoiceChangers unter Leitung von Rosemarie Arzt
17.00 Uhr / Tischlerei
Dauer: ca. 25 Minuten / Eintritt frei


Am heutigen Abend sind im Rahmen des Adventskalenders die VoiceChangers zu erleben. Diese jungen Sänger sind oft schon seit der Grundschule Mitglieder des Kinderchors der Deutschen Oper Berlin und standen bei Produktionen wie TOSCA, CARMEN, PARSIFAL, LA BOHÈME, WOZZECK und TURANDOT auf der großen Bühne. Die Stimmwechsler-Gruppe wurde von Rosemarie Arzt vor inzwischen 12 Jahren gegründet und bietet seitdem den jungen Sängern die Möglichkeit, auch in der komplizierten Phase des Stimmbruchs, wo Kehlkopf und Stimmlippen wachsen und sich der Zugriff auf das gewohnte Tonspektrum stark verändert, ihre Stimmen gemeinsam erklingen zu lassen. Hier wird der Stimmwechsel nicht als Hindernis beim Singen verstanden, sondern als eine Zeit der stimmlichen (Neu-)Entdeckungen.

Heute singen die VoiceChangers im Adventskalender in der Tischlerei Weihnachtslieder aus verschiedenen Ländern. Sie entführen uns mit Klassikern wie "Maria durch ein Dornwald ging“ oder „O du fröhliche“, aber auch spanischen Weihnachtsliedern sowie englischen und amerikanischen Pop-Hits wie „Jingle Bells“ und "The Christmas Song“ in eine feierliche Weihnachtswelt.