From the 4th to the 24th of July, the Teatro Real in Madrid will offer 16 performances of Tosca, which returns to this venue with a new approach, born from the musical and dramatic richness of this thrilling masterpiece by Puccini.
Conceived as a cinematic thriller, with the support of projections and a circular set that evolves from the realism of the first act to a progressively more conceptual and symbolic language, Azorín takes the spectator into the revolutionary, chaotic and merciless atmosphere of the Napoleonic and counter-revolutionary struggles, the seed of the movements that would lead to the unification of Italy years later. Drawing a parallel between the tragic love story of the protagonist and the struggle against a corrupt, autocratic power, Tosca fights for the man she loves to the point of humiliation and murder, symbolically embodying the uncompromising defence of revolutionary ideals. The opera, a co-production of the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona and the Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville, premiered in 2014, will star three casts led by sopranos Sondra Radvanovsky, Maria Agresta and Anna Netrebko; tenors Joseph Calleja, Michael Fabiano, Yusif Eyvazov and Jonas Kaufmann; and baritones Carlos Álvarez, Gevorg Hakobyan and Luca Salsi.
