Roberto Alagna

Aleksandra Kurzak - Floria Tosca

Roberto Alagna - Mario Cavaradossi

Luca Salsi - Scarpia

Giorgi Manoshvili - Angelotti

Carlo Bosi - Spoletta

Nicolo Ceriani - Sciarrone

Giulio Mastrototaro - Sacristain

Productor - Hugo De Ana

Conductor - Francesco Ivan Ciampa

Orchestra and chorus of the Verona Opera

Press review

Giornale Adige - L'Adige di Verona - 30th of July 2023

"A triumph of passion and drama ... A great success, in front of a very large and committed audience ... Roberto Alagna is a convincing Cavaradossi, full of passion ... A top-class singer, very effective in his subtle use of chiaroscuro, colour and nuance ... Exquisite and unrestrained in the duets ... Notable accents ... A good high A at the moment of "Vittoria" ... " 

"A triumph of passion and drama. [...] The first performance of Tosca at the Arènes on Saturday 29 July was a great success. The audience was very large (nearly 10,000) and strongly involved in the story, to the point of openly applauding not only the most famous arias, "Vissi d'arte" and "E lucevan le stelle", but also the moment of Scarpia's murder in the second act, which Aleksandra Kurzak and Luca Salsi rendered with a powerfully vivid, almost realistic tragedy. [Roberto Alagna, the diva's husband, is a convincing and passionate Cavaradossi, who fashions the duets of the first half exquisitely and without restraint, finds notable accents in the dialogue with Angelotti and throws in a good high A at the moment of "Vittoria". Alagna is a top-class singer, highly effective in his subtle use of chiaroscuro, colour and nuance.  "

Opera sensa confini - Silvia Campana - 30th of July 2023 

"A vibrant and lively Cavaradossi ... A great overall interpretation ... A great deal of coherence and vigour".

"Roberto Alagna portrays a vibrant and lively Cavaradossi with an accent that completely masters the word and defines a temperament that is as fiery and impulsive in its ideals as it is sensitive and passionate. A great all-round performance that [...] is delivered with great coherence and vigour.  "

Seen and Heard International - Jim Pritchard - 30 July 2023
 

... A triumvirate of remarkable actors ... Kurzak, Alagna and Salsi were truly Tosca, Cavaradossi and Scarpia showing dramatic - and realistic - acting worthy of live theatre ... Their singing was unspeakably glorious ... Charismatic, vocally resplendent, Roberto Alagna defies the years and acted and sang AS WELL AS EVER ... I found myself exceptionally overwhelmed by the EMOTION of it all". 

"I have previously suggested that Verona mainly required all the lead singers to just fill their lungs and sing forte all the time. I am grateful to a triumvirate of remarkable singing actors for proving that this is not the case. Those who watched the close-up camera work saw dramatic - and realistic - acting worthy of live theatre. I believed that Aleksandra Kurzak, Roberto Alagna and Luca Salsi were really Floria Tosca, Mario Cavaradossi and Baron Scarpia. I was so involved in what I was watching that at the end, when Cavaradossi bids farewell to Tosca with a long kiss - because he doesn't believe he will survive the supposedly 'false' execution - I found myself exceptionally overcome with emotion and had tears in my eyes. 

The singing of the three main actors was incredibly glorious: Roberto Alagna defied the years and played and sang as well as ever. His charismatic Cavaradossi had a jovial side, but was also capable of exploding with revolutionary zeal, while revealing his deep affection for Tosca. Alagna brought vocal splendour to "Recondita armonia" and the highlights were his "Vittoria! Vittoria!" and the imprecations of Scarpia and Tosca as they are dragged away. E lucevan le stelle" was a plaintive conversation; he then caressed "O dolci mani" and the duet that followed was extraordinarily tender and deeply moving. [...]
A final word on this Tosca: brilliant!  "

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