Music drama by Giacomo Puccini with libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica based on the drama La Tosca by Victorien Sardou. Revival in Italian with German surtitles.
Chief of police Scarpia has fallen for the beautiful singer Tosca. She, however, loves the painter Cavaradossi. The fact that the two men are political opponents makes the situation hopeless. A drama from which none of the three will escape alive takes its course. Love, jealousy, torture, murder and suicide turn Puccini's masterpiece into a passionate love story and a political thriller.