Singer

With the sadistic police chief Scarpia, Giacomo Puccini enriched opera literature with one of its most abysmal characters.
The painter Cavaradossi falls into his clutches when he helps a political prisoner to escape.
But for Scarpia, Cavaradossi is just a decoy through which he can finally win the celebrated singer Tosca.

Tosca

German Oper am Rhein

Recreating reality is all well and good, according to Giuseppe Verdi, "but inventing reality is better, far better". And what sort of reality he invented in his Troubadour opera: Swapped children, avenged mothers, sacrificed lovers and more... An almost mythical tale full of unbelievable twists and turns that repeatedly put all the characters right into a state of emergency. Verdi was far more concerned with the credibility of the emotions and not so much with the credibility of the plot itself: Singing as a kind of utopia, as the opening of a space that does not exist in recreated reality. In his staging of Verdi's opera, director Paul-Georg Dittrich goes in search of exactly these moments.

Soprano

Ekaterina Sannikova

Events

Past events

Jan 16 - Mar 17, 2025

Tosca · Deutsche Oper am Rhein

Sep 21 - Nov 22, 2024

Il Trovatore · Staatsoper Stuttgart

Future and recently performed repertoire

Leonora in Il trovatore by Verdi

Staatsoper Stuttgart

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