Gevorg Hakobyan

Rempli de chaos et de dangers dès les premières mesures, Tosca est un opéra captivant. Avec ce mélodrame, écrit en 1900 dans un style provocateur, audacieux et cinématographique, Puccini n'a pas seulement annoncé le XXe siècle, il l'a pris d'assaut. Barrie Kosky met en scène le premier opéra dont il est tombé amoureux dans son enfance et se concentre uniquement sur le drame psychologique. Lorenzo Viotti, passionné de Puccini, livre une Tosca musicalement débarrassée des interprétations traditionnelles de la partition, l'abordant d’un point de vue original.

The Invisible City of Kitezh, completed in 1905, is a remarkable opera that fuses folklore, mysticism and realism. Its subject is the story of the advancing Mongol army's entry to Great Kitezh and the city's subsequent miraculous survival. Rejecting archaisms and the more religiously inclined suggestions of his librettist, Rimsky-Korsakov sought to create an opera that 'is contemporary and even fairly advanced'. It is therefore through-composed, hinting at times at Wagnerian procedure, and flooded with the composer's rich, apt and brilliant orchestral palette, fully supportive of the powerful vocal writing.

Andrea Chénier is a verismo opera in four acts by Umberto Giordano, set to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica, and first performed on 28 March 1896 at La Scala, Milan. The story is based loosely on the life of the French poet André Chénier (1762–1794), who was executed during the French Revolution.