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Tosca

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Tosca

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  • Sat, 6 July 2024, 14:00
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  • Wed, 10 July 2024, 14:00
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    Backstage Tour in English will be held after the performance.
    *It is required to apply for this tour through the web form below before the performance begins.

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  • Sun, 14 July 2024, 14:00
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    Backstage Tour in English will be held after the performance.
    *It is required to apply for this tour through the web form below before the performance begins.

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  • Fri, 19 July 2024, 19:00
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  • Sun, 21 July 2024, 14:00
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2023/2024 SEASON

Music by Giacomo Puccini
Opera in 3 Acts
Sung in Italian with English and Japanese surtitles

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6 Jul - 21 Jul, 2024 ( 5 Performances )

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Running time is approx. 2 hours and 55 mins including intervals.

Booking Opens: Sat, 13 Apr 2024, 10:00am

DETAILS

Italian director Antonello Madau-Diaz's highly popular production of Puccini's Tosca returns to the New National Theatre Tokyo. His visually spectacular staging, especially in the "Te Deum" scene in Act I, vividly evokes the atmosphere of turn of the nineteenth century Rome where the tragedy of the doomed lovers Tosca and Cavaradossi takes place.

The opera is full of vocal highlights including Cavaradossi's ardent romanza "Recondita armonia", Tosca's heart-felt prayer "Vissi d'arte, vissi d'amore" and Cavaradossi's farewell song, "E lucevan le stele", and Puccini's music maintains the dramatic tension right to the climactic final scene. This production welcomes the renowned Maurizio Benini as conductor and features an outstanding cast including Joyce El-Khoury as Tosca and Teodor Ilincăi, who also performed impressively as Calaf in Turandot, as Cavaradossi.

NEWS & FEATURES

2ND July, 2024
Cast change: Tosca (6 - 21 July, 2024) / Role of Scarpia
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21ST June, 2024
Backstage Tour in English will be held for "Tosca"!
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SYNOPSIS

The setting is Rome, June 1800 - a period of power struggle between Republicans and Royalists. Republican Angelotti escapes prison and seeks help from his friend, the painter Cavaradossi who is painting in the church. Soon after, his lover and celebrated singer Tosca arrives. She is jealous of the woman represented in his painting, but they promise to meet later and she leaves. While Cavaradossi takes Angelotti to his villa, the police chief Scarpia arrives at the church in search for the fugitive. He tricks Tosca into leading the police to Cavaradossi and Angelotti.

Cavaradossi is captured and brought in to Scarpia. Tosca is also summoned to his study and when she hears Cavaradossi being tortured in the next room, she reveals Angelotti's hiding place. Tosca pleads for Cavaradossi and Scarpia agrees to release him if she would give herself to him. She reluctantly submits, but as he finishes writing her a safe-conduct pass, she stabs him to death.

At dawn the next morning, as Cavaradossi awaits execution at the Castel Sant'Angelo, Tosca appears and explains the mock execution and tells him how she killed Scarpia. When the squad fires, Cavaradossi falls. Tosca rushes to him but discovers that Scarpia had betrayed her, and before she is arrested for his murder, she leaps from the battlements.

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CREATIVE TEAM & CAST

CREATIVE TEAM

Conductor: Maurizio BENINI
Production: Antonello MADAU-DIAZ
Set Design: KAWAGUCHI Naoji
Costume Design: Pier Luciano CAVALLOTTI
Lighting Design: OKUHATA Yasuo

CAST

Tosca: Joyce EL-KHOURY
Cavaradossi: Teodor ILINCĂI
Scarpia: AOYAMA Takashi
Angelotti: TSUMAYA Hidekazu
Spoletta: ITOGA Shuhei
Sciarrone: OTSUKA Hiroaki
Il Sagrestano: SHIMURA Fumihiko

Chorus: New National Theatre Chorus
Orchestra: Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra

  • CREATIVE TEAM
  • CAST
  • Maurizio BENINI
    Conductor
    Maurizio BENINI
    Antonello MADAU-DIAZ
    Production
    Antonello MADAU-DIAZ
  • Joyce EL-KHOURY
    Tosca
    Joyce EL-KHOURY
    Teodor ILINCĂI
    Cavaradossi
    Teodor ILINCĂI
    AOYAMA Takashi
    Scarpia
    AOYAMA Takashi

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Booking Opens: Sat, 13 Apr 2024, 10:00am

Booking Z seats (Day tickets) 1,650 yen

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Under 15s discounts and Z seats (Day Tickets) are available online. Other types of discount tickets are not available online. Please inquire at the Box Office or by telephone.

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