Tosca

Opera by Giacomo Puccini
Opera & Musical Theatre

Giacomo Puccini’s »Tosca« is one of the most gripping operatic thrillers of them all. Around 1800, as tensions are escalating between republicans and royalists in Italy, singer Floria Tosca and her lover, the painter Mario Cavaradossi, are caught in a deadly web of political intrigue and personal caprice. Scarpia is the brutal chief of police who abuses his power to deviously blackmail Tosca.

This dramatic story at the intersection of power and art uses the haunting fate of the artist couple to demonstrate what it is like to live in an authoritarian system. Puccini completes the picture with his music: a highlight of emotional power, intensity and tension.

Info

Melodramma in drei Akten

Libretto von Giuseppe Giacosa und Luigi Illica nach dem Drama »La Tosca« von Victorien Sardou

in Italian with German surtitles

Location
Theater Heidelberg, Marguerre-Saal
First night
24 October 2026
Age recommendation
14+

»Tosca, you make me forget God.«

Cast

Mario Cavaradossi
Kwonsoo Jeon / Jaesung Kim
Spoletta
Cesare Angelotti
Mesner
Jasper Lampe
Sciarrone / Schließer
Marcos Lima, Xiangnan Yao
Ein Hirtenknabe
Lykka Bork / Amélie Delacroix / Miyu Matschinsky / Leonore Springfeld / Lilian Zhao
Opernchor des Theaters & Orchesters Heidelberg, Extrachor des Theaters & Orchesters Heidelberg
Kinder- und Jugendchor des Theaters & Orchesters Heidelberg

Team

Musical Director
Director
Paul-Georg Dittrich
Stage and Costumes
Michael Sieberock-Serafimowitsch
Video
Lukas Rehm
Lighting Design
Karsten Rischer
Dramaturgy
Björn Seela
Choir Director
Education
Director of Studies
Nanami Yamane
Musical Rehearsals
Nanami Yamane / Junyoung Kim / Eunshil Oh / Manon Parmentier / Paul Breyer
Assistant Director
Maurice Böhlke
Stage Manager
Katharina von Zadow
Costume Assistant
Hannah Schäfer
Assistant Set Design
Chantal Navina Mathes

The production of the decorative parts is carried out in the workshops of Theater & Orchester Heidelberg.

Cast