Opera Hedeland prelude: Puccini's Tosca">
Opera expert Henrik Engelbrecht talks about Puccini's masterful opera
This year, Opera Hedeland has Puccini's "Tosca" on the program. Do you want to be prepared before you grab your picnic basket and settle in?Hear the whole story of Puccini and one of the opera world's greatest triangular dramas when opera expert Henrik Engelbrecht once again visits Roskilde Library and gives a lively and captivating introduction.
About Puccini's "Tosca"
Join us in Rome in June 1800 during the Napoleonic Wars in Europe, where a steamy love story, but also a political thriller, takes shapeThe action in "Tosca" takes place in less than 24 hours - and Puccini's music keeps the audience in suspense.
The drama plays out between the three main characters; the diva Floria Tosca, her lover, the painter and revolutionary Mario Cavaradossi, and the corrupt police chief Baron Scarpia.
Scarpia has long coveted Tosca, and when he suspects Cavaradossi is hiding a political prisoner - Angelotti - he sees an opportunity to kill two birds with one stoneHe will manipulate Tosca into revealing the prisoner's hiding place and reveal Cavaradossi's involvement in order to get Tosca for himself.
When Cavaradossi is arrested, Scarpia presents Tosca with an impossible choice: she must give herself to Scarpia or her lover will die. What will she choose? And who will survive?
"Tosca" focuses on the Italian struggle for political freedom from Napoleonic France, and along the way the opera features murder, suicide, execution and torture!The opera was first performed in Rome in 1900 and has since then - as one of the most frequently performed operas - been performed at the world's leading opera houses.
About the speaker
Henrik Engelbrechtis an opera expert and music communicator. He has previously worked as an opera editor at DR P2, as an opera dramaturge at the Royal Danish Theatre and as music director at Tivoli.
He now divides his time between communicating opera and classical music as an author, writer, podcast producer, teacher and lecturer and working as an artistic advisor and curator for museums, opera houses and festivals, including the Theater Museum, the Royal Danish Opera House and the Royal Danish Opera.Theater and Tivoli.
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The libraries are for everyone and are designed so that you can get around with a wheelchair, walker or stroller. Hearing impaired people are welcome to bring their own aids.
Read more about our access conditions at Roskilde Library
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This year, Opera Hedeland has Puccini's "Tosca" on the program. Do you want to be prepared before you grab your picnic basket and settle in?Hear the whole story of Puccini and one of the opera world's greatest triangular dramas when opera expert Henrik Engelbrecht once again visits Roskilde Library and gives a lively and captivating introduction.
About Puccini's "Tosca"
Join us in Rome in June 1800 during the Napoleonic Wars in Europe, where a steamy love story, but also a political thriller, takes shapeThe action in "Tosca" takes place in less than 24 hours - and Puccini's music keeps the audience in suspense.
The drama plays out between the three main characters; the diva Floria Tosca, her lover, the painter and revolutionary Mario Cavaradossi, and the corrupt police chief Baron Scarpia.
Scarpia has long coveted Tosca, and when he suspects Cavaradossi is hiding a political prisoner - Angelotti - he sees an opportunity to kill two birds with one stoneHe will manipulate Tosca into revealing the prisoner's hiding place and reveal Cavaradossi's involvement in order to get Tosca for himself.
When Cavaradossi is arrested, Scarpia presents Tosca with an impossible choice: she must give herself to Scarpia or her lover will die. What will she choose? And who will survive?
"Tosca" focuses on the Italian struggle for political freedom from Napoleonic France, and along the way the opera features murder, suicide, execution and torture!The opera was first performed in Rome in 1900 and has since then - as one of the most frequently performed operas - been performed at the world's leading opera houses.
About the speaker
Henrik Engelbrechtis an opera expert and music communicator. He has previously worked as an opera editor at DR P2, as an opera dramaturge at the Royal Danish Theatre and as music director at Tivoli.
He now divides his time between communicating opera and classical music as an author, writer, podcast producer, teacher and lecturer and working as an artistic advisor and curator for museums, opera houses and festivals, including the Theater Museum, the Royal Danish Opera House and the Royal Danish Opera.Theater and Tivoli.
Practical information about Roskilde Library
The libraries are for everyone and are designed so that you can get around with a wheelchair, walker or stroller. Hearing impaired people are welcome to bring their own aids.
Read more about our access conditions at Roskilde Library
