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FULL TOSCA (KZ Buchenwald Tosca) Genoa 2013 Raffaella Battistini, Fabio Buonocore, Mauro Buda
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Tosca
- Composer: Puccini Giacomo
- Libretto: Luigi Illica, Giuseppe Giacosa, adaptation by Mauro Pagano Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Teatro dell'Archivolto (Teatro Gustavo Modena), Genova, Italy
- Recorded: January 27 & 28, 2013
- Type: Staged Opera Live
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Pagano’s reading aims to highlight the values of redemption symbolically represented by the Risorgimento and the heroic duo Tosca-Caravadossi and gives significance to Puccini’s immortal work.
«Buchenwald is the only extermination camp where in April 1945 – underlines the director – the prisoners rebelled and took control before the arrival of the allies». Pagano’s staging proposes that the performance of Tosca takes place – precisely – in Buchenwald in March 1945 on the orders of an SS officer in love with Puccini’s opera and who discovers that there are some singers from a Bulgarian company in the camp. «It is precisely the story of Caravadossi, killed on the scene by shots from Luger, as well as Tosca herself, mowed down by a burst of machine gun fire, that lights the spark of rebellion», says Pagano.