Tosca

by Giacomo Puccini

Dates:

May 15, 18, and 20 at 7:30 p.m
May 22 at 2:00 p.m.

Location:

Louis-Fréchette Hall at the Grand Théâtre de Québec

Language:

In Italian with French surtitles

Duration:

2 hours and 45 minutes, including an intermission

Programme La Cenerentola

By phone:

Grand Théâtre de Québec box office
418 643-8131 / 1 877 643-8131

In person:

269 René-Lévesque Blvd. East,,
Quebec City, Quebec)

A production of the Opéra de Québec

Opera in three acts

Music: Giacomo Puccini

Libretto: Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa (based on the play by Victorien Sardou)

With the Opéra de Québec Chorus and the Orchestre symphonique de Québec

In Tosca, Puccini explores the relationship between love, power and freedom in a Rome marked by political tensions. Through a plot shaped by jealousy, manipulation and betrayal, the composer creates a drama in which personal destinies are closely intertwined with political events.

Opéra de Québec brings together a talented cast of singers to perform the roles in this work, with Jean-Marie Zeitouni as music director and Thomas Lussier as stage director.

WHEN LOVE CONFRONTS POWER, EVERYTHING CAN CHANGE.

Rome, 1800. The singer Floria Tosca is in love with the painter Mario Cavaradossi. But political power, jealousy and violence gradually draw them into a trap from which no one will emerge unscathed.

When Cavaradossi helps a political prisoner escape, he attracts the attention of Baron Scarpia, chief of police. A ruthless tyrant, Scarpia desires Tosca and quickly realizes he can use her jealousy to achieve his own ends.

Over the course of a few hours, love, the desire for freedom and the struggle for power collide, leading to an inevitable outcome.