The opera where love, art, and politics collide — and nobody gets out alive.
Tosca is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 14 January 1900. This version is conducted by Riccardo Muti at La Scala, Milan.
Acting
Maria Guleghina's Tosca burns with desperate, defiant fire.
Direction
Ronconi's staging makes political terror viscerally intimate.
Score
Muti conducts Puccini's shattering melodies with ruthless precision.
Director
Pierre Cavasillas
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This 2000 La Scala production was filmed live with multiple cameras, capturing actual audience reactions including the stunned silence after Act II.
Puccini based the opera on actual Roman locations you can still visit — Sant'Andrea della Valle, Palazzo Farnese, Castel Sant'Angelo — making Tosca a twisted tour guide to the city.
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