Bow Street
London
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Prices include tickets plus hotel
Tickets + hotel fr £98 / person
Tickets + hotel fr £98 £88 / person
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Running time: 3hr. Incl. 2 intervals.
Booking from: 26 Nov 2024
Booking until: 13 Dec 2024
FROM SARDOU'S PLAY TO PUCCINI'S OPERA
From the early 1890s Giacomo Puccini had toyed with adapting French playwright Victorien Sardou's gripping melodrama La Tosca into an opera, but only began serious work following the premiere of the critically acclaimed La bohème in 1896.
Employing La bohème's gifted librettists Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica to streamline Sardou's complicated plot, Puccini's Tosca premiered in 1900.
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With the city gripped by political unrest, fears of violence plagued the premiere at Rome's Teatro Costanzi.
However, Tosca?opened without incident, and although unpopular with critics who disliked its violence, it became an immediate success with the public and has remained a favourite ever since.
CHARACTER-PAINTING THROUGH MUSIC
Puccini portrays the idealism of Tosca and her lover Cavaradossi through radiant, expansive music, including Act I's duet 'Qual occhio al mondo' (What eyes of this world), Cavaradossi's ardent aria 'Recondita armonia' (Hidden harmony) and Tosca's despairing Act II prayer 'Vissi d'arte' (I lived for my art).
Scarpia's music, by contrast, is dark and terrifying ? from the demonic chords that open the opera to the violence of his Act II exchanges with Tosca.
Royal Opera House
Bow Street
London
WC2E 9DD
Directions:
( 7 minutes from Leicester square Tube Station) Head east on Cranbourn Street and continue for 390 feet ( towards Charing Cross Road). Cranbourn Street turns slightly right and becomes Garrick Street continue along this road for 207 feet. Turn left onto Floral Street and continue for 0.2 miles. Turn right onto Bow Street and continue for 171 feet, the theatre will be on your right hand side.
Tube:
Covent Garden station is 1 minute walk (135 metres)
Matinee | Evening | |
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Friday | 7.30pm | |
Sunday | 2.00pm |
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Royal Opera House
Bow Street
London
WC2E 9DD
Covent Garden station is 1 minute walk (135 metres)
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