Dramaturge

While La Bohème consists only of poetry and not of action, it is said that with Tosca it is the other way around: only action, no poetry. Even the librettist Giuseppe Giacosa considered Sardou's original completely unsuitable for an opera. “What made Puccini come to terms with such a real and dealing with a brutal subject whose actors are little more than puppets entangled in a highly intelligent, cleverly designed plot? ”asked the music critic Mosco Carner. Maybe just that? For over 20 years Willy Decker's classic production of Puccini's Sex and Crime masterpiece has been a repertory perennial.

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Tosca

The Staatstheater Stuttgart

In Brave New World in 1932, the loyal Freudian Aldous Huxley had one of his characters describe families as turbo-incubators of human neuroses, in whose warm, humid climate one could only go crazy. In the case of the Atride family, whose psychosocial abnormalities were addressed by Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal in 1909, one generation hands the ax to the next: Clytemnestra avenges the sacrifice of her daughter Iphigenia on her husband Agamemnon, Elektra uses her brother Orestes to murder her the mother and her lover Aegisthus, only sister Chrysothemis longs for home and hearth. Peter Konwitschny lets the children watch the patricide in the bathtub. But the retribution will be anything but liberation.

Dramaturge

Juliane Votteler

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6 - 27 Jan, 2025

Tosca · Staatsoper Stuttgart

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