“La Scala’s season opens with a powerful Tosca” (Financial Times). Premiered in 1900 with huge success, Puccini’s “melodramma” Tosca is one of the most dramatic thrillers in the history of opera. In this performance Riccardo Chailly conducted “a magnificent orchestra and a sonorous choir” (NMZ) while Anna Netrebko had sung “phenomenally. She still has one of the most beautiful voices today.” (Deutschlandfunk) With “Francesco Meli, probably unsurpassable in this role at the moment: lyrically soft, and then again impressively expressive”, and Luca Salsi also “very convincing as the slick, power-conscious Scarpia” (BR Klassik), La Scala has engaged the highest-calibre partners imaginable.

Cast:
- Floria Tosca: Anna Netrebko
- Mario Cavaradossi: Francesco Meli
- Il barone Scarpia: Luca Salsi
- Cesare Angelotti: Carlo Cigni
- Il sagrestano: Alfonso Antoniozzi
- Spoletta: Carlo Bosi
- Sciarrone: Giulio Mastrototaro
- Un carceriere: Ernesto Panariello
- Un pastore: Gianluigi Sartori

Stage director: Davide Livermore
Set designer: Giò Forma
Costume designer: Gianluca Falaschi
Lighting designer: Antonio Castro
Video: D-wok

Recording date: Teatro alla Scala, December 2019