Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica
based on Victorien Sardou’s play of the same name

Music Director: Daniele Callegari
Director, Scenographer, Lighting Designer: Stefano Poda

One of the world's most beloved operas is returning to the Bolshoi Theatre after a seven-year hiatus. Stefano Poda, the renowned Italian director (as well as set, costume, lighting, and choreographer), is working on the new production of Tosca. One of the director's core principles is the aesthetic and conceptual unity of the performance. Nothing in his productions is ever accidental or out of place. Stefano Poda masterfully manipulates the stage space. His set design (which often resembles a work of art in itself) is never simply a beautiful backdrop: it "lives," "performs," ​​alongside the actors, engaging with the audience's cultural memory. According to the director, opera is beautiful because it unites many arts: music, words, painting, sculpture, architecture, and this synthesis creates something especially valuable.

The renowned maestro Daniele Callegari will conduct the opera. The conductor is in demand at the world's greatest theaters, including the Metropolitan Opera, La Scala, the Opéra National de Paris, the Liceu in Barcelona, ​​the Berlin State Opera, the Bavarian State Opera, the Vienna State Opera, and many others. Daniele Callegari has collaborated with leading orchestras, including the Orchestre Metropolitan de Greater Montréal, the Orchestre National de l'Île-de-France, the Orchestre National de France, the Orchestre Symphonique Nationale de Radio Italiano, the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, the Munich Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Tokyo Philharmonic, the Orchestre National de España, and the Giuseppe Verdi Orchestra of Milan.