Tosca♪, G. Puccini, the 19.
from Tuesday 16 to Saturday 20 July 2024,
4 nights
Arrangement 4
Arrangement 4
Un Giorno di Regno, G. Verdi, the 17.
Tobias Ringborg - Christopher Alden
Christine Rice, Madison Leonard, Joshua Hopkins, Henry Waddington, Oliver Sewell, Grant Doyle
Garsington Opera
Tosca
G. Puccini
G. Puccini
"Tosca" was first performed on January 14, 1900 at the Teatro Costanzi, now the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, symbolically on the spot. The evening was a major social event, and in addition to the Prime Minister and the Queen, the composers Pietro Mascagni and Francesco Cilea were also present. With his "Tosca" Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) entered a new century and, with his highly theatrical and effective scenes, he committed himself to Verist opera on the one hand and to the tragic-heroic grand opera on the other.
After seeing the drama of the same name by Victorien Sardous, which was a huge international success with Sarah Bernhardt in the leading role, the composer successfully applied to Sardou for the rights to create a libretto. The wealth of musical ideas (more than 60 themes appear as leitmotifs) and the breathless sequence of events are largely responsible for the immense tension and drama of the opera. By focusing on the main character, the work is considered a "prima donna opera" par excellence. Although it has always been suspected that a historical figure is behind Tosca, the characters and plot are freely invented.
However, the background against which the plot unfolds is historically determined by the Second Coalition War and the Battle of Marengo in 1800 between French and Austrian troops. Napoleon’s supposed defeat and his final victory over the coalition troops are reported in the first and second act of the opera.
Today "Tosca" is one of the most popular and most performed operas of all.
After seeing the drama of the same name by Victorien Sardous, which was a huge international success with Sarah Bernhardt in the leading role, the composer successfully applied to Sardou for the rights to create a libretto. The wealth of musical ideas (more than 60 themes appear as leitmotifs) and the breathless sequence of events are largely responsible for the immense tension and drama of the opera. By focusing on the main character, the work is considered a "prima donna opera" par excellence. Although it has always been suspected that a historical figure is behind Tosca, the characters and plot are freely invented.
However, the background against which the plot unfolds is historically determined by the Second Coalition War and the Battle of Marengo in 1800 between French and Austrian troops. Napoleon’s supposed defeat and his final victory over the coalition troops are reported in the first and second act of the opera.
Today "Tosca" is one of the most popular and most performed operas of all.
Angel Blue, Russell Thomas, Alexeij Isaev
Royal Opera House
Hotel informations for London & Garsington 4
Hartwell House & One Aldwych *****
The Hartwell House & Spa *****, located in the Vale of Aylesbury and just forty miles north west of London, is one of Buckinghamshire’s most celebrated country houses. Built in the early seventeenth century for the Hampden family, the house has both Jacobean and Georgian features with outstanding decorative plaster-work and panelling. Its fine elegant reception and dining rooms create the ambience of a great country house. The forty-six bedrooms, including those in the adjacent Hartwell Court, are individually furnished with fine prints, pictures and antiques.
You will reach the Garsington Opera in half-hour drive, we may organise for you the private transfers.
One Aldwych is an independently-owned, luxury London hotel with a difference - big enough to excite, yet small enough to care. This contemporary hotel offers everything needed for the ultimate stay in central London: creative cocktails in the seriously stylish Lobby Bar, inventive British dishes in Indigo restaurant, an 18-metre swimming pool and outstanding treatments at The Health Club, a magical afternoon tea inspired by Charlie & The Chocolate Factory and a private guest lounge, as well as beautiful bedrooms and suites.
Set in an enviable location, in the centre of London’s Covent Garden, One Aldwych is perfectly placed for the best restaurants, big-hit galleries, must-see museums and great shopping.
You will reach the Garsington Opera in half-hour drive, we may organise for you the private transfers.
One Aldwych is an independently-owned, luxury London hotel with a difference - big enough to excite, yet small enough to care. This contemporary hotel offers everything needed for the ultimate stay in central London: creative cocktails in the seriously stylish Lobby Bar, inventive British dishes in Indigo restaurant, an 18-metre swimming pool and outstanding treatments at The Health Club, a magical afternoon tea inspired by Charlie & The Chocolate Factory and a private guest lounge, as well as beautiful bedrooms and suites.
Set in an enviable location, in the centre of London’s Covent Garden, One Aldwych is perfectly placed for the best restaurants, big-hit galleries, must-see museums and great shopping.
All-inclusive price per person for London & Garsington 4
Single room/ night
Hartwell House & One Aldwych
from 3.960,- Euro
280-350,- Euro
The price includes
Overnights including breakfast, good opera tickets, scheduled flight, return taxi transfers, private transfer Garsington - London, festival transfers, picnic, travel cancellation expenses insurance.